I get to be married to the liveliest mind I've ever encountered.... I hit the jackpot.

My favorite things in life are my children. If somebody wants to understand me, there's no better window into that than my children.

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night.

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

We need to find means for cooperation.

Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.