This is a complicated time to govern in the world today because of so much going on and it's coming at us at such an unprecedented rate.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

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

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

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.

Imposing democracy through force is a roll of the dice.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.