It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

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.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Public action should seek to expand the set of opportunities of those who have the least voice and fewest resources and capabilities.

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.