I urge our friends not to silence the discourse on human rights.

I am quite troubled by the direction of the country when it comes to civil society and human rights.

American patience is not unlimited, and the Egyptian leverage on the relationship is also not unlimited.

On the one hand is the ethical considerations, the responsibility to take care of people who are sacrificing for all humankind.

if you don't create political space, you are inviting repression and authoritarian regimes because there is no alternative.

However repressive or anti-democratic tendencies they may have been showing at the time of the overthrow, they did not do what this government has done against its own citizens.

I mean, you couldn't have asked for a better sense of citizenship.

the only viable electoral alternative was the Muslim Brotherhood. They were the only ones who had organized.

The idea that there is only this military-led government or chaos in the void seems to me an unacceptable proposition.

I believe that those actions are almost designed to play into the hands of the very people you and I want to prevent from coming to power.

To be a critic of the el-Sisi government is not to view terrorists as lapsed Democrats.

There has to be another alternative making this better, creating political space so that we aren't faced with a black-and-white, either/or alternative.

What are the pros and cons of such an approach?

We send young men and women to go fight for us overseas because they're defending the country and we know we're going to lose some.

I think that's actually a really important question, and I'll speak to it from the ethics perspective because that's what I know...

Shame on everybody for making it such a big issue. I don't think it is.

What a crime. What a terrible thing for the head of the Park Service to want to promote the Park Service on its 100th anniversary.

I must say to my colleagues, it's-- we might walk a little humbly in the face of the Lord when we're a body that's been accused individually of sexual harassment.