The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

The consequence of a world full of nuclear powers to me is so incomprehensible in terms of the dangers that that implies.

There are sometimes problems for which there is no immediate solution, and there are sometimes problems for which there is no solution.

There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to work together to educate the United States about marketing overseas.

In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.