Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

We cannot do everything in Africa, but doing nothing is not an option.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

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.

Democracy fascinates me.

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.