Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your advantage, and something that you don't use when it's not to your advantage.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

I am not a neoconservative. I am pro-American.

If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.