Every new president inherits headaches, but President Obama has inherited an entire emergency room.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time andeffort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.

I think that the Middle East is the largest piece of unfinished business that we all have. I happen to believe in the democratization process.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

I can't go out with a Republican.