The multinational corporations now developing budgets often bigger than medium-sized countries — these live in a global space which is largely unregulated, not subject to the rule of law, and in which people may act free of constraint.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

Politics is compromise.

One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.