China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

For me, America is really, truly the indispensable nation.

After the Cold War, to rally the American people to understand that we had to be a part of solutions. It's one thing to say that we have to run everything, it's another to say we don't want anything to do with it.

My deepest regret from my years in public service is the failure of the United States and the international community to act sooner to halt these crimes.