I think it's very important that we understand that the country in the world most sensitive to the regime in Jordan, most aware of the implications for security, is Israel.

the greatest threat to peace and security in the Middle East remains the Iranian nuclear weapons program

I think the embassy move has been given a symbolic significance well in excess of its practical effects.

No, I don't think it is worth negotiating. We have negotiated for 10 years.

Accordingly, I conclude that only one U.N. reform is worth the effort. And without it, nothing else will succeed.

The Clinton trip is a significant propaganda victory for North Korea whether or not he carried an official message from President Obama.

Mr. Clinton paid a -- quote -- 'form of political ransom.'

I think there's a very real risk here that the intelligence community is like generals fighting the last war. They got Iraq wrong and they're overcompensating by understating the potential threat from Iran.

I think that you have to look at this hostage taking not as an isolated incident, but part of a larger scheme that Iran is pursuing to project its power in the Middle East and really globally, part and parcel to their effort to acquire…

Ahmadinejad emerges as a win-win for him here. He had a victory by taking the hostages. And now he has another victory by what is effectively a unilateral decision to give them back to the British as an Easter present.

I think they should have tried harder with their European colleagues to move toward economic sanctions.

I'm afraid it proves the opposite. I think Ahmadinejad emerges as a win/win for him here. He had a victory by taking the hostages and now he has another victory by what is effectively a unilateral decision to give them back to the British…