Being an occupier is not good for anybody's global standing. It is a catalyst for terrorist recruitment.

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.

Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere.

Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.

My second epiphany came as an intern at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The man I worked for was consumed with what was going on in Bosnia. And the more I knew [about it] the more saddened I was. There were these images of emaciated men behind barbed wire.... It was like, I've got to find a way to do something.

We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.

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