In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al….

Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now..

I tell young people: If you make a job choice on the basis of something other than your nose or your gut, it's unlikely to work out.... It's perilous….

You've got to deploy serious political assets around a plan [in Darfur]. And the George W.] Bush administration has never had a plan. Ever. The Europ….

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable….

My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed..

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic..

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defi….

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places..

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid..

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call..

Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise..

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term..

I'm going to Washington on a fateful, even historic, mission. I feel that I am an emissary of all Israel's citizens, even those who do not agree with….

Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism..

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with..

Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence..

Without investing in the rule of law for the poor, none of the other investments we make will be sustainable..

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter..

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up..

I think about Syria when I go to bed at night..