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

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

From Richard Holbrooke - and I miss him every day - I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off the longer-term reforms. The other thing is, he was a hell of a schmoozer! So I should take advantage of my Irish love of beer and gift of the gab, and build relationships. That's a cherished part of the job, asking someone, "How did you get to be the Rwandan ambassador?" I try to take advantage of the fact that I hope to be here at least until the president's term ends getting to know my colleagues.

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

The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

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

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