Richard Armitage

“True satisfaction and true justice, in my belief, will only come for Americans, and for that matter now for Spaniards and Turks and Saudis and Moroccans, when we put an end to terrorism.”

“You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misnamed. We're not so much trying to help people as we're trying to help ourselves. So let's be clear about this. So these are - in my view, they're cold calculations of national security and not aid programs.”

“I'd say that, to be a good deal maker, you have to have 3 basic characteristics - timing, timing, and timing.”

“The development of weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to carry them would be a very destabilizing effect, should Iran be able to accomplish that.”

“There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by Saddam Hussein is on his own citizens. Iran in this regard. Syria, with their close support of Hezbollah, is noteworthy in this respect.”

“The campaign against terrorism is going to be global and it's going to be long and there's reason to expect there will be difficulties along the way.”

“Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.”

“I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.”

“Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.”

“I'm the only honest person in Washington.”

“I value my ability to keep state secrets.”

“I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?”

“Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.”

“There are ways to pursue political change. In a democracy, it's through the ballot box. There are other ways, and many democracies have many different systems of democracy.”

“North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.”

“U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.”

“As far as this citizen is concerned, the decision to commit men and women, who are also sons and daughters, to combat is an extraordinarily important one, and not to be done to just feel good; to be done to absolutely accomplish a mission.”

“I must say I've rarely been described as 'diplomat.'”

“I think that although we say we don't want to be the policeman of the world and et cetera, when 911 is dialed, it's the United States that has to answer the call.”

“I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.”