I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.

My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with me, and of the entire Jewish people

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.