I think Republicans so mistrust Barack Obama, that if Barack Obama says Putin is terrible, they will be some Republicans who just take the other side.

If democracy succeeds in Egypt, other countries will follow. Should the democratic experiment in Egypt be hijacked by the military or anti-democratic Islamist groups, the revolution will fail elsewhere.

It's very hard to understand just what our strategy is in Syria, frankly, and on Iraq that this is Iraq's war, that the role of the United States is to help Iraq, to arm, train, support, provide air support, but this has to be Iraq's war.

When the big guys in Washington dream of transforming the world, it’s the little guys who come home in body bags.

I believe, that there is at least de facto cooperation between United States and Iran, at least in Iraq.

Retrospective analysis is not a useful guide to current problems.

Luck is the residue of good planning.