Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.