The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to box Saddam in in a way that's going to make it much more difficult for him to maintain his power, and that he's going to become increasingly isolated. I think that's going to take time.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.