In This Day And Age, The U.s.

I Am A Team Player - And That Is What You Need To Be An Effective Point Guard. You Gotta See The Court, You Gotta Set Up The Play, And You Gotta Let Others Execute For The Most Part. I Don't Throw Elbows For The Sake Of Throwing Elbows, But If Somebody Throws One At Me And It's Necessary To Respond In Kind, I Suppose I Can If I Have To.

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.

I Don't Worry About How Folks Want To Characterize Me.

The United States Really Only Accounts For About 3 Percent Of The Economic Engagement With Russia. Europe Is 40 Percent, And So Europe's Contribution To This Pressure Is Far More Than Symbolic. It's Very Practical. And That's One Of The Many Reasons Why We Have Worked Hard To Remain In Close Coordination With Our European Partners.

Peace, Prosperity, And Democracy Cannot Endure If Imposed From The Outside. We Should Cease To Make False Distinctions Between Peacekeeping And Prevention; They Are In Fact Inextricably Linked.