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.

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

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

The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

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

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.