It was an attempt to stick the Congress's finger in King Hussein's eye.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Oh, you know. I am secretary of state. My trips aren't successful. I just talk to people.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.

Increasingly, the state system has been eroding. Terrorists have exploited this weakness by burrowing into the state system in order to attack it.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.