We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a repressive government that responded by basically killing the protesters. It's not a genocide, it's a war, and there's a difference. Genocide is a preplanned attack on people because of who they are. This is a interstate conflict.

You have to make change.

You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.