I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the “my way or the highway” approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

No one has done what Saddam Hussein has done, or is thinking of doing. He is producing weapons of mass destruction, and he is qualitatively and quantitatively different from other dictators.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.