Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come – and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He’s already demonstrated that he’s trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.
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.
As I was telling my husb – As I was telling President Bush.
If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.
Well, there’s been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can’t continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we’ve had.
It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
I’ve always said that I expected to grow up and get married like any nice southern girl, but the fact is you don’t get married in the abstract. You find someone that you’d like to be married to.
Now, al Qaeda’s on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.
The United States government does not authorise or condone torture of detainees. Torture, and conspiracy to commit torture, are crimes under US law, wherever they may occur in the world.
At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.
It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people – or rather to all interest groups.
I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States to a more peaceful world, a world that has been quite turbulent in recent years, and needs a strong American anchor.
Defeating Human Trafficking is a great moral calling of our time.
We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq.
We need a common enemy to unite us.
Richard Clarke had plenty of opportunities to tell us in the administration that he thought the war on terrorism was moving in the wrong direction and he chose not to.
I don’t think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there’s a relationship here.