America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

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.

Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

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

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.