I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and I craved something I could identify with.

Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

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

Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.