My hunch is, we’re watching a bureaucratic slow-roll take place, but the danger is it’s happening as the situation on the ground is getting worse. The administration has been in this knot of having called...

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better.

I spend a lot of time travelling – both by plane and car – and my travel time is never ‘down time’. Having the potential to use the phone anywhere sounds attractive. But phones can...

That arc of conflict has created a sort of regional super failed-state that terrorists and criminals have used to base their operations and to exploit the very precious diamond resources there.

He is focused; he is totally focused on this preparation and on this debate, … It is an opportunity for the American people to see that he is a strong, smart, tough leader.

reminds us of the serious continuing threat we face, and that we are not as safe as we could or should be.

When you look at a secretary of defense who has been as forceful and effective as Donald Rumsfeld, for good or for ill, he’s a tough customer,

She’ll have to show whether she has the stuff to stand up and fight.

We have come a very long way in a very short period of time,

Whatever happens (Monday), whether there is a signing, whether there is a partial signing of pieces of the agreement that the parties are prepared to put their names to at this point or whether there...

This is a crucial time for her. There is a window of opportunity in this post-conflict era to demonstrate to the people who elected her that democracy can put bread on the table. … If...