The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government.

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.

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.

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.