One of the big changes in the Congress since I first came to Washington is that all of these folks go home every weekend. They used to play golf together; their families got to know each other, go to dinner at each other's homes at weekends - and these would be people who were political adversaries.

Defense is not like other discretionary spending.

Well, Israel, obviously, thinks of the Iranian nuclear program as an existential threat to Israel.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

It has become clear that America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long - relative to what we spend on the military, and more important, relative to the responsibilities and challenges our nation has around the world.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.