Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

Although we refer to the International Criminal Court, the real problem is the prosecutor, because it's the prosecutor who decides who to investigate and what cases to bring. This court fundamentally embodied a potential for abuse of governmental power that I felt was inconsistent with being a free person - and [it was] inconsistent for a free country like the United States to subscribe to it.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

I have looked at public opinion polls in France in the late 1940s and early 1950s during the height of Marshall Plan aid. They had a very negative attitude towards the United States then. There were negative attitudes towards the United States because of Vietnam. There were negative attitudes about the United States when Reagan wanted to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles. I don't think the president should base his foreign policy on American public opinion polls, let alone foreign public opinion polls.