Nothing generates more heat in the government than the question of who is chosen to participate in important meetings..

Know something about something. Don’t just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around..

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme..

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they….

I think history is continuous. It doesn't begin or end on Pearl Harbor Day or the day Lyndon Johnson withdraws from the presidency or on 9/11. You ha….

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to sy….

"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probab….

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation..

It's an improvisation on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you don't know how to get there. It's not linear..

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone..

The United Nations is an indispensable but deeply flawed organization. It is valuable to the United States, and the United States is invaluable to it….

There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, ra….

MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks, and….

A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and far more dangerous to peace and stabi….

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against ….

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity..

Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on n….

It is essential that the foreign forces who have invaded and occupy large parts of the Congo halt their offensive action.

In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a se….

A peace deal requires agreements, and you don't make agreements with your friends, you make agreements with your enemies..

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim..