Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict..

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible..

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards..

Donald Trump seems to be unconcerned about the Russian aggression in Ukraine. By doing this he tells them that they can go ahead and do what they are….

Sometimes corruption is slowed by shedding light into what was previously shadowed..

I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government..

I think it's a mistake to rely too much on any one economic factor. It's why investors try to spread their portfolio round..

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive..

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the re….

The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, w….

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon shows that it's not confined to Republicans. There is a general sentiment that America is on the wrong track..

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views..

I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interf….

I wish there were somebody I could be comfortable voting for. I might have to vote for Hillary Clinton, even though I have big reservations about her..

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either..

I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American ….

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, p….

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "….

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This app….

Look, I think the notion that theres a dogma or doctrine of foreign policy that gives you a textbook recipe for how to react to all situations is rea….

The absence of Saddam is a huge weight off the Arab world..