There is crisis in Europe, where Russia is the principle intriguer and player, which affects a major source of international business and flow of capital.

We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.

I never exploited my father’s role in helping Jews avoid the concentration camps...

The political awakening that is happening worldwide is a major challenge for America, because it means that the world is much more restless. It's stirring. It has aspirations which are not easily satisfied. And if America is to lead, it has to relate itself somehow to these new, lively, intense political aspirations, which make our age so different from even the recent past.

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

Hegemony is as old as mankind.