I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.

We went to the same college so I know [Hillary Clinton's] study habits, but when she was first lady of Arkansas, she did a lot of things already for children, and she was head of the Children's Defense Fund, and that's how I first heard her or met her, she was very very involved in really a very important social program to do something about children and women and education.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

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

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.