Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Foreign policy is all about a universe of bad decisions, imperfect decisions; every situation is different. The dynamics, the atmospherics, the people, the pressures, the geopolitical realities shift.

I'm not sure leaders listen enough, especially to their people. And I've always thought in everything I've tried to do in my life, in the jobs I've had, is that if we can turn our transmitters off and our receivers on more often, we're better leaders and we know more of what is going on and therefore we can lead more effectively.

Desperate men do desperate things when you take hope away. And that's where the Palestinians are today.

It is easy to get into war, not so easy to get out.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.