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

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…

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.

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;