After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.

Israel's flexibility is dependent on its sense of security.

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

It’s unlikely to change – there’s nothing in King Salman’s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. There’s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that he’s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down … I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.