Saddam's goal is to achieve the lifting of U.N. sanctions while retaining and enhancing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. We cannot, we must not and we will not let him succeed.

I think that there is never an indispensable leader, you know? I think that there is a time with dignity that one needs to leave.

Why, since man and woman were created for each other, had He made their desires so dissimilar? Why should one class of women be able to dwell in luxurious seclusion from the trials of life, while another class performed their loathsome tasks? Surely His wisdom had not decreed that one set of women should live in degradation and in the end should perish that others might live in security, preserve their frappeed chastity, and in the end be saved.

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

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.