Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not an issue of negotiation with the U.N. about obligations that they undertook in 1991.
You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.
Let me let you in on a little secret. There is no such thing as an international community. There are self-maximizing, self-interested states that will push their interests as far as possible.
I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.
There isn't a doubt that Iran constitutes the single most important single-country strategic challenge to the United States and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.
If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I'll take it one step at a time.
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're being shaped and molded toward their own future, and you have a chance to be a part of that.
When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on leave - they say, 'Well, how do I get to do what you do?'... And I say, 'Well, you have to start out by being a failed piano major.' And my point to them is don't try to have a 10-year plan. Find the next thing that interests you and follow that.
Our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.
We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.
I think Americans are not guilty for 9/11; I think President Bush is not guilty for 9/11.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.
But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and there will continue to be vulnerability. That's why we have to meet the threats when they are not yet taking place on our territory and on our soil.
I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.
I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.
If you love Russia, you have to love Godunov.
So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.
