Rahm Emanuel seems to think he knows Israel very well, and that the way to treat that country and its democratically-elected government is the way he treats all opponents in politics: by attacking and attacking.
— Elliott Abrams
If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.
Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.
When the policy is controversial, you have to go out and defend it.
Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech.
After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
I would have thought that if you're going to try to punish the Syrians and prevent them from using chemical weapons again, the thing to do is a one-time strike. Maybe a cruise missile strike at one or two of their air bases just so they know what they're going to gain from using chemical weapons on the battlefield.
The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.
The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
We use American influence with Israel not to promote economic growth in the West Bank, but to try and impede Jewish - never Arab - construction in the capital city.
The threat that Syria might transfer more advanced weapons to Hezbollah has existed for a long time.
At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.
If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.
The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, our critics seem suspicious of any assertion of United States power or influence against any government or group that claims to be on the left.
I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure.
The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.
The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.
The United States needs to be far clearer: we cannot and will not support any government where Hamas has a real influence and the security forces stop fighting terror.
The Egyptian military plays positive and negative roles in Egypt, but the most significant single thing it did under Mubarak was to guarantee an Islamist victory once he left the scene.
I personally would not talk to a Jew for Jesus.
Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.
If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.
It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.
Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.
Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.
As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.
Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.
People are entitled to believe the government is constantly lying to them, but it isn't.
Never fight turf on turf. Fight it on the basis of ideas.
During the election campaign of 2000, it was generally thought that then-governor Bush didn't know much about foreign policy or national security affairs, and that Colin Powell would lead on that front, while the president's main concern would be domestic.
I think President Obama views Israel as a problem that needs to be solved.
Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.
I well remember a leading Egyptian liberal saying to me in 2003 that she did not favor free elections right then in Egypt; she favored them in a decade's time if she and others had those 10 years to organize freely.
The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the latest piece of evidence that the granting of visas should be taken away from the State Department. For the granting of visas - especially today, when terrorism is such a complex threat - is far closer to being a law-enforcement function.
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.
If a Jewish group sat down with a Christian conservative group, and there was a so-called Messianic Jew at the table, that would be the end of the meeting.
The Pope is not a political figure.
The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.
Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.
Terrorists that kill Americans don't get released.
