Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and pulpits to their own people. What one hears is often astonishing, sometimes frightening, and always important. Most importantly, it includes the newly-emerging liberal voices of reform and hope, as well as disturbing echoes of ancient hatreds. Without the valuable research of MEMRI, the non-Arabic speaking world would not have this indispensable window.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear.

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies.