China is a major power in the Pacific and I think we are dealing with some common threats in that region: the whole issue of Korea and the stability of Korea, the whole issue of nuclear proliferation, the whole issue of providing free access to our ships that are operating in that area.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

If you're a terrorist, you're a terrorist.

I don't think there's any question that America is safer as a result of the bin Laden operation.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.

I don't engage in hypotheticals.