There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

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