I have been very much chagrined because for the past 2 years the Palestinian leadership has refused to enter into direct talks with Israel.

The two most powerful forces in the world today are youth and technology.

I would like to see Kosovo admitted to the EU and admitted, of course, to the U.N.

is this the time that we really want to pull back funds that support critical programs and initiatives?

It was a terrible, terrible injustice and murder of four Americans who were peacefully protesting the Cuban regime.

I actually agree that our energy dependence is a national security issue.

Today, there are as many as 100 million missing girls in China--gendercide, the evil twin of genocide.

We want to protect religion and religious believers, but we don't want to use some of the tools that other countries are proposing.

I am deeply concerned about vulnerable populations like Afro-Colombians and the indigenous...

The United States has been, and I hope will remain, the leader in dealing with refugee challenges...

I am interested in results for America.

I would argue strongly that the need to continue to support the Palestinians and their state-building is in Americans' interest.

I am asking you this morning, what is the administration doing to gather evidence to build a case against Qadhafi?

For many of those families, they will not be able to move forward. They will not get closure until the people responsible for that flight and that bomb are held accountable.

Pakistan has to be put into historical context whenever we talk about it in the United States Government.

I cannot stress to you how strongly I think it is imperative that we continue the mission in Iraq.

In light of this massive ongoing crime against women, I would like respectfully to know if you or the President raised directly in a face-to-face manner the issue of forced abortion in China when President Hu Jintao was in Washington.

All of us, of course, want Japan to sign the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.