President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.