While all Alawites fear vengeance against their entire community should Assad fall, there are varying degrees of loyalty to the Assads.

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.

There are no Muslim ghettos in the U.S.

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.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

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