There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years...We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon.

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track.

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them.

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, 'impose democracy.' We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States.

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.