As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.