Stephen J. Hadley: “It should surprise no one that freedom has allowed the expression of sectarian identity and the surfacing of sectarian…”

President Bush early on in his administration said that the U.S. policy of trying to purchase stability at the price of supporting these authoritarian regimes was a bad bargain; that authoritarian regimes are not stable, and they needed to…

Anyone who has watched the performance of these heroes in the square, and we can only admire their courage as they fight for their freedom, knows that it is not Hezbollah. This is not Hamas. This is an upwelling of the Egyptian people.

I think the main thing that we have to think about is how to explain to the American people that our safety and security depends on a different--that we can't wall ourselves off from things.

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