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.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

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

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.

Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

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