My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.
We're going to have to take the best of the liberal agenda and the best of the conservative agenda and create an American agenda.
Thus, in setting an American agenda for a New World Order, we must begin with a profound alteration in traditional thought.
Iraq will drive American agenda for a long time because Iraq policy has so damaged America in the Middle East region, left us isolated. We are there now by brute strength, we are not there because we are desired.
I wouldn't call it America's war on terror. Terrorism is our own fight as well, and if it coincides with the American agenda or the international agenda, well, that's fine.
When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.
