Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East.

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

There has got to be some penalty for their behavior.

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.

I want to emphasize that. Thank you for saying that.

Those cuts would create job loss.

But in the short term, we had better be careful not to snuff out this nascent recovery by doing too much cutting.

This very moment is not time to radically reduce our spending or raise our taxes because the economy is still in a recovery mode and needs that support.

Through your skilled advocacy around the world to rebuild partners and to--reliable partners and bilateral engagement, you are making indeed America a safer and a stronger Nation.

Frankly, I wish we were doing a better job.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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