I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

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.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

What I learned is that policymakers have to force consideration of actions that may not have occurred to them at the time.