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" The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because of the regime's support for terrorism. While we maintain diplomatic relations, we do not staff our embassy there. "

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" You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces. "

" In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. "

" Why are diplomatic cables secret at all? "

" President Bush met repeatedly with human rights activists and freedom fighters from all over the world to give them encouragement and protection and to advance their cause. "

" If you are trying to raise a child to be a Jew, then you have to create a sense of Jewish identity. You really weaken that sense of identity if you celebrate two religions. "

" There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States. "

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" There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending. "

" In the spring of 2007, Israeli intelligence brought to Washington proof that the Assad regime in Syria was building a nuclear reactor along the Euphrates - with North Korean help. This reactor was a copy of the Yongbyon reactor the North Koreans had built, and was part of a Syrian nuclear weapons program. "

" Needless to say, if the Arab-Israeli conflict is about interstate disputes and the need to resolve the future of the West Bank and Gaza, it can be solved; if it is a religious conflict, nothing but violence is ahead. "

" While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes. "

" In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free elections. There is no freedom of religion - not even for Shiites, who are forced by Iran's theocracy to adhere to one narrow set of official rules. "

" First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes. "

" It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain. "

" 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. "

" At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away. "

" 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. "

" The United States should help strengthen nongovernmental humanitarian agencies working in Sudan so that they can handle an increased flow of aid. "

" For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing. "

" It's not good for Israel to govern millions of Palestinians. "

" In the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal - but his term ended in 1965, and she was elected in 2001. Hardly a hand-off. "

" We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism. "

" I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. "

" The way for the Palestinians to get a state is to go ahead and build it. "

" 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. "

" Olmert made a proposal on the governing of Jerusalem that I do not believe his cabinet or the Knesset would have accepted. "

" Obama isn't good off the cuff, especially when challenged; he is far better with a prepared speech. "

" When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it. "

" Pundits are used to analyzing the gap between what our ideals suggest and what our security interests require. "

" There is no way around the contradictions and dangers inherent in Israel's decision to free over 1,000 prisoners in order to liberate Gilad Shalit. "