World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

I think the idea that you would do everything you can to prevent what is coming at you by way of something very disruptive - a 9/11 - it's a no-brainer.