I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

As a child, I really did see buildings bombed, and what makes me different from an American that's the same age as I am is that I can understand what happens when there is fighting in a way that they couldn't.

I got married, I really waited a long time - three days after I graduated.