Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.