We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.

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

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

The culture of the State Department is very negative towards a conservative foreign policy. And the model that we all have, of civil servants as neutral careerists who carry out the policy of the elected president, doesn't work nearly the way it should in the State Department. So that there are many people who want to be good civil servants, who want to try and carry out these policies, but are afraid to do so. And I'm not even counting the very small number of conservatives in the State Department who are genuinely at risk.

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

I am all in favour of democracy in Iraq.

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