Psychology is as important as substance. If you treat people with respect, they will go out of their way to accommodate you. If you treat them in a patronizing way, they will go out of their way to make your life difficult.

I feel relieved that we discovered that Iraq did not have nuclear weapons.

Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

When you have half of Caironese in slums, when you don't have clean water, when you don't have a sewer system, when you don't have electricity, and on top of that you live under one of the most repressive regimes right now... Well, put all that together, and it's a ticking bomb. It's not of a question of threat; it is question of looking around at the present environment and making a rational prognosis.

It would be, in fact, very ominous if Iraq were to be able to get weapon-usable material, hydro-plutonium or highly enriched uranium from abroad.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.