It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

Nobody has trusted the Iranian government from day one, but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. Every administration says at least that we're trying to have talks between Israel and Palestine and solve the Middle East peace problem.

As we continue to fight the war on terror, we express our gratitude to our troops whose valor over the last three years provided freedom to the Iraqis, while protecting our liberty here at home.

We can only move to a long-term resolution regarding terrorism and war by planting seeds of peace. We have to start with ourselves.