American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

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

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.

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.

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

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

We need to deter the Palestinians in any way we can.