It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

It is very clear that the people in Afghanistan do not want the Taliban back.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.

I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

I drink tons of water. Just as much water as I can possibly drink.

I'm in charge of the State Department's 60,000-plus people all over the world, 275 posts.

Well, human security is a concept that I am very committed to enshrining in American foreign policy.

Everyone can change.

George W. Bush is very popular in Sub-Saharan Africa. Why? Because of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief.

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

I never thought I would end up being the Senator from New York.

Let us try what love will do.

Only trust theyself, and another shall noet betray thee

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.