At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

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

The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it.

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

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Irans theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules.

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.