One of the things I love about negotiations is that you have to be able to play it like an orchestra, different instruments for different circumstances. There's sweetness, and encouragement, and cajoling. There's pressure, there's drama, there's ultimatums.

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

Iran's economy is now shrinking by 1 percent a year. Its oil production is down 40 percent.

I am blunt when I want to be.

I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

As Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Barak have repeatedly said, the intelligence and security relationship between the United States and Israel at present is unprecedented. It has never been stronger.

Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.