People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

We need a strong and effective State Department. We can't conduct American affairs in the world without it.

I am not a professional politician.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

I have decided not to run for president.

The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.