I think there has to be the sense that once you have climbed the ladder of success, that you don't push it away from the building.

In A Man With a Pipe, my brother observed that although my father had been seen as intellectual and my mother more a creature of temperament, she had often been the more levelheaded of the two. In sum, we miss them as we love them, equally and always.

Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.

We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

We must be authors of the history of our age.