If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, particularly from their close neighbors in Europe who have a great stake in North Africa.

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed.

People seem to forget that Saddam was the only leader in the world who praised the attacks of 9/11 as a good thing.

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the support systems...

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom . . . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was . . . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Islamic State is mainly a direct result of the failure in Syria. That's where IS has grown. That's where IS spread from.