It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

Our fundamental goal in getting involved in Bosnia in the summer of 1995 was to end the war. Richard Holbrooke's fundamental goal was to negotiate a peace: a peace that was sustaining and self-sustaining over the long term.