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.

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.

The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

If you don't have ups or downs in your life you're dead

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion when I cannot make two timepieces agree!

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Few things are so deadly as a misguided sense of compassion.

Almond milk + cinnamon crunch = major key to success.

When you are engaged in both trying to kill and capture the enemy and get support from the local population, you have to be always asking yourself, "Is what I'm doing keeping that balance?"

Sometimes the most important job advertising can do, is to clarify the obvious.

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.