As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Today the impulse towards interdependence is immeasurably greater. We are witnessing the beginnings of a new doctrine of international community.

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

The money from Iraqi oil will be yours - it will no longer be used by Saddam Hussein for his own benefit.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Sometimes people say to me, 'Well, what was the difference between Kosovo, which was a successful intervention, and Iraq and Afghanistan that have been so difficult?' And the answer is perfectly simple. In Kosovo, you have, after the removal of the loss of its regime, you had a process of political and economic reconstruction that took its part without the intervention of terrorism. If you had the intervention of terrorism, by the way, it would have been extremely difficult there - but we didn't.

I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.