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.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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.

Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.

Nobody's ever said that pins are a tool of diplomacy.

John Kerry knows more about more subjects than an awful lot of people. But I think it's a very hard job [Secretary of State].