There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

I happen to miss the Constitution; I thought it was a good document.

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.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.