The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

There is plenty of room in the world for mediocre men but there is no room for mediocre women.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'