What I do every morning is get up and ask myself how I'm going to advance the interests and values of the United States.
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.