Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

My style in diplomacy is my style as a human being - I'm very direct and very honest.

The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.

Some anti-Americanism derives simply from our being a colossus that bestrides the earth. But much anti-Americanism derives from the role U.S. political, economic and military power has played in denying such freedoms to others.

I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.