You cannot bring peace in Syria as long as [Bashar] Assad is, in fact, there.

Sunni are the majority of the [Syria], 60 to 65 percent. They've been ruled by [Bashar] Assad, who represents a minority Alawite element, which is about 12, 13 percent. And because of the choices Assad made, it's very difficult to see how you resolve this without buy-in from the Sunni world.

We do have to take the long-term view. And long term, the question to ask ourselves is whether America should attack others pre-emptively, whether she should embroil herself in wars far away from our soil, and try to bring democracy by force to the rest of the world.

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down in scriptures, clearly.