Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.

Even when I was at CIA, I'd go to visit foreign leaders and I'd say, 'You know, I'm not a diplomat. I'm just an old CIA guy'... I said, 'If I wanted to be diplomatic, I'd have been a diplomat.'

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

Every time we have come to the end of a conflict, somehow we have persuaded ourselves that the nature of mankind and the nature of the world have changed on an enduring basis and so we have dismantle our military and intelligence capabilities. My hope is that as we wind down in Iraq and whatever the level of our commitment in Afghanistan, that we not forget the basic nature of humankind has not changed.