My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly unilateral and domineering policies have brought international trust in our country to its lowest level in memory.

In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.