I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country, first in defeat of the Taliban and now a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.

...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism a…

We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting the…

The United States has been very clear that we did have to have some political basis to make clear that that cessation of hostilities was not going to countenan…

So China's president [Hu Jintao] meets, uh- meets America's president. It's like President 'Who?' meeting President 'Huh?'.

At home his vision and leadership restored national self-confidence and brought some significant changes to U.S. politics while abroad the negotiation of arms …

All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently conf…