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

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

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

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 United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid.

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

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