Events often move faster than our ability to comprehend them.

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.

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.

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

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.