You have a fervor for change and for helping folks on the ground, and support for democratic change and human rights and development.

Yes; I guess in a region like the Middle East where you always have tension, that is one of the realities that will persist, even in this new environment.

So in a word, you have to be nimble, and you won't have as much predictability as you might have had before.

We know that we are partners in counterterrorism.

Hamas is a terrorist organization that calls for Israel's destruction and that directs violence against civilians.

Only a Palestinian Government that recognizes Israel and renounces violence and abides by previous agreements between the PLO and Israel can really be a true partner for peace.

But if our policy, ultimately, is to foster democracy, shouldn't these groups be evaluated on the basis of what they would do to foster democracy?

I would hope that we would establish a policy that clearly creates a nexus between the trips and our foreign policy toward the island, which is the hope of advancing democracy.

So we make clear to people who are traveling to Cuba for people-to-people contact, we make clear to them that if they go too far in advocating for democracy or regime change that they could go to jail?

the only safe way to go to Cuba is to travel there and not really do anything more than, you know, cultural stuff, but really don't talk about politics because that could get you in trouble.

there's an open resistance in Cuba now; a resistance which is being oppressed

political repression has increased

We are grateful, because you've been so effective and so capable, but also, I think, in a word, a great patriot.

Thank you.

The Syrian Government's constant brutality, its refusal to allow peaceful marches, its insistence on widespread arrest campaigns, and its atrocious torture--the reports you read about the detention conditions are just ghastly.

If you're not allowing the free flow of information, I think that, at a minimum, questions arise about the implications of that.

I commend your initiative in visiting Hama to demonstrate American support for the Syrian people's demands for an end of the Assad regime and a more democratic future.

Sudan is really low-hanging fruit. I mean--OK, Sudan. But, where we really--where an entity like this would really grow and be a legitimate entity that you could look at and say, 'Boy, I'm glad we have this,' is for them to say something…