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

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

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

When I wake up in the middle of the night when I hear one of my kids coughing or crying, I think about Syria.

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europeans don't want to do anything, saying, "The Americans are in charge of that." And in fact the Americans are in charge of naming it and bringing these resolutions every few weeks to the Security Council.