A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.