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" The notion that public service requires men and women of good character now seems quaint. "

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" If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so. "

" The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor. "

" Israel will not and should not leave until it is clear that the West Bank can be policed by Palestinians and that the region will not be a source of terrorism against Israel, as Gaza and South Lebanon became when Israel left there. "

" The conflict between secular Zionism and the settler movement did not appear overnight following Israel's conquests in the 1967 war, for there was an argument that bridged the gap: security. "

" In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times. "

" American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world. "

" Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration. "

" Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II. "

" History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper. "

" 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 intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. "

" Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful. "

" The Obama administration has vastly expanded the use of armed drones and concentrated a great deal of diplomatic effort on building and maintaining alliances that share information about terrorists, provide access to get near them, and then strike against them. "

" The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country. "

" The Sandinistas are dedicated Communists, and if they are going to make a compromise with democracy, it's going to be under pressure. "

" Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969. "

" Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history teaches, when there is nothing much to do, you may as well amuse yourself by attacking the Jews. "

" Reagan did not wait out the Soviets; he beat them. "

" Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits. "

" What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation. "

" Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. "

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" 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. "

" When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth. "

" The attack on the British embassy in Tehran came just days after the Iranian 'parliament' voted to expel the British ambassador, and therefore reeks of official complicity. "

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