If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world, show some concern with the problems.

We are the dominant power. And that imposes on us a responsibility to be actually concerned with the well being of the world. Because we set the agenda. And th…

I think he's a man of good intentions. I don't doubt it. But I think he's leading us in the wrong direction.

The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. Tha…

Ordinary people abroad take a better attitude toward men who come as guests with their wives. And if they are accompanied by other members of their family, tha…

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…

Deux grands princes qui se voudroient bien entr'aymer, ne se devroient jamais voir, mais envoyer bonnes gens et sages les uns vers les autres, et ceux la les e…