is an asset for the world, not just for its own people or for a particular regime.

You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries more weight than any other single country.

I believe that people are nervous and worried and anxious, ... I wouldn't say confidence has disappeared. The economy is still very buoyant. But people are worried.

a serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces,

Here we actually went in, created a war that would otherwise not have occurred and now we see a complete political vacuum,