those who perpetrate violence deal themselves out of the peace process.

I learned in business that you had to be very careful when you told somebody that's working for you to do something, because the chances were very high he'd do it. In government, you don't have to worry about that.

Nothing ever gets settled in this town.. a seething debating society in which the debate never stops, in which people never give up, including me. And so that's the atmosphere in which you administer.

We have struggled with terrorism for a long time. In the Reagan administration, I was a hawk on the subject. I said terrorism is a big problem, a different problem, and we have to take forceful action against it. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan agreed with me, but not many others did.

If there are ways in which we can make Qaddafi nervous, why shouldn't we? That is not deceiving you, but just using your predictable tendencies to report things that we try to keep secret.

The higher the classification [of secrecy], the quicker you will report it.