Diplomacy Is Not An End In Itself

Obviously, You Make Preparations Before You Engage In Any Meeting.

Although We Refer To The International Criminal Court, The Real Problem Is The Prosecutor, Because It's The Prosecutor Who Decides Who To Investigate And What Cases To Bring. This Court Fundamentally Embodied A Potential For Abuse Of Governmental Power That I Felt Was Inconsistent With Being A Free Person - And [it Was] Inconsistent For A Free Country Like The United States To Subscribe To It.

The Real Issue Of Dealing With Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction: Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Is: What Is Your Tolerance For Risk? And My Tolerance For Risk For Wmd Proliferation Is Pretty Close To Zero. Because Otherwise, We And Our Allies Are At The Mercy Of Regimes Like Ahmadinejad And The Mullahs In Tehran, Or Kim Jong Il And The Hitler-in-the-bunker Mentality In Pyongyang, Or Others Who Don't Share Our Calculus On The Value Of Human Life.

I Don't Think I Would Have To Run A Campaign That's Financed Like General Motors.

People Say You Favor Assassination, What Do You Think War Is? Except That It's Assassination On A Much Larger Scale, A Much More Horrific Scale.