Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists. And the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin. And that's despicable.

I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.