Every Country Has An Aspect To It

I Think The Russians Basically Don't Think The North Koreans And The Iranians Have The Capabilities To Get Weapon Systems That Can Threaten Them, Or That If They Do The Russians Know How To Handle Them And That That's The Reason That It's All The More Important That Russians Be Involved In The Sale Of High-end Conventional Weapons, The Bushehr Nuclear Reactor In The Case Of Russia And Iran, And Similar Kinds Of Relationships.

I'm Not Saying That You Need A State Department That Looks Like The Litigation Department Of A Major Law Firm. But You Need People Who Are Not Afraid To Make The Case For The United States, Who Are Not Afraid To Stand Their Ground, Not Afraid To Be Isolated In International Organizations When That's The Correct Approach For Our Diplomacy. This Is A Cultural Change That Has To Be Effected Through Incentive Systems, Promotion Systems, Career Training Systems. This Is Not Something That You Can Do With The Stroke Of A Magic Wand, It's Going To Take Years To Make This Change.

The European Union Can Now Act Like A Major Power, At Least That Is What The European Union Tells Us.

I Think The Future Of China's Unknown, I Don't Know What Direction It's Going To Go In. It Could Go In The Right Direction, It Could. It Could Go In A Very Bad Direction, Too.

Maybe It's My Libertarian Philosophy: But Being In Government Is Hard.