Stephen J. Hadley

I urge all Americans to unite behind the President's defensive decision to strike one of the world's most powerful terrorist who was organizing against--organizing attacks against Americans in Iraq in defiance, I might add, of U.N…

For far too long, Tehran has been permitted to act with impunity against U.S. allies' interests and its personnel. I applaud the President for making our red lines clear.

The Middle East is a safer place when the United States is clear and consistent in its intentions.

Our best information operation has always been truth and trying to get it to the people in these closed societies because what is really the toxic element for them is actually truth about what is happening in the world.

America has never accepted the idea that it had to choose between its democratic principles and its interests.

Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.

We need to show them that the American political and economic system works; we need to overcome our political gridlock;

We need to have not just be talking about democracy; we've got to have a conscious strategy for how to counter what they're doing.

What I am troubled by is that if we make ultimately an accommodation with Assad, we send the message to the world that if you are brutal enough with your own people and kill enough of them, the international community will let you stay in…

Bipartisan foreign policy is going to be much stronger and sustainable.

I think there is a huge opportunity for Congress on a bipartisan basis to lead this debate.