Every country has an aspect to it that rubs up people the wrong way.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.

Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival.

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 European Union can now act like a major power, at least that is what the European Union tells us.