America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

An idea can be as flawless as can be, but its execution will always be full of mistakes.

First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

There is no Beatitude for the lonesome.The Book doesn't say they are blessed.

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

I never willfully want to write the same record twice, which is probably why I jump from project to project. But I can't ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.

At one point, I was just perceived as only being angry, but now I'm being perceived as angry, peaceful, and spiritual.

There are a lot things that are going on that are unjust. People aren't being held accountable for. And that's something that needs to change.

I first think of intelligence. You need it for surviving in Italy because Italy is so pompous.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism - the individual - is mightier than any collective.

I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.