In fact, our interests are reinforced by our values and vice versa. There is no doubt that American interests are better advanced today in a world in which more countries share our values of individual liberty, of freedom, of the belief that the ruled ought to be able to chose those who will rule them, of freedom of the press, of human rights, and of human dignity. There is no doubt that those interests and those values go hand in hand. In that regard there are two instruments of American power that I think are sometimes undervalued in understanding our best road toward a coherent foreign policy, and I want to talk just briefly about those two. One instrument of America power is to better understand and to better use the strength of nongovernmental institutions in promoting American values and interests abroad.
All people say, yes, they do.
These are universal values. Now, nongovernmental institutions of many types play important roles. At Stanford I watched as more and more students, particularly at the graduate level, from around the world sought their higher education here. And those people go back not just with a better education, but I think with a better sense of who we are. Now there's been a lot of talk about how to build nations and there's often reference to the Marshall Plan in doing so.