I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.

I don't much believe in bumper sticker characterizations of foreign policy.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

A strong State Department to me means a corps of career officials who believe that their job is to advocate America's interests and who are trained in effective advocacy, not schooled in accommodation.

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.