Can I Be Blunt? Yes. Can I

Be Who You Are. If You Spend All Of Your Time Worrying About How People View You, You Will Not Be Either Faithful To Yourself Or Effective In What You're Trying To Do.

Progress Is The Product Of Human Agency. Things Get Better Because We Make Them Better. Things Go Wrong When We Get Too Comfortable, When We Fail To Take Risks Or Seize Opportunities.

Legislation That Would Withhold Funding For The United Nations Is Fundamentally Flawed In Concept And Practice, Sets Us Back, Is Self-defeating, And Doesn't Work.

Well, Nigeria Has Played A Constructive Role In Peacekeeping In Various Parts Of West Africa. But Unless And Until Nigeria Itself Is Democratic And Respects Human Rights, It Too May Well Be A Source Of Much Greater Instability As Political Repression Limits The Ability Of The People Of Nigeria To Achieve Their Full Potential.

There Are No Cookie-cutter Solutions That You Can Apply From One Circumstance To Another. They're Different. Our Interests, As Implicated, Are Different. The Tools We Have At Our Disposal Are Different.