I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.