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 have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on the ground.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.