We have got to have an increase in pressure on the Iranians right now. I think they have used force, illegally, as best we can tell. If Iran can get away with this, it will simply embolden them.

this deal is a very bad idea, that he hopes that the president still has enough time to say no, that it's going to show the United States as being weak while trying to deal with Iraq and Iran, that it goes against established…

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., is resigning, amid opposition in the Senate to his confirmation.

We're not going to address that sort of comic strip approach to international affairs.

We're moving as fast as we can. They're just going from one meeting to another.

But sometimes that happens in diplomacy, you get apart, things appear to be collapsing, and then they come together.

We have been making progress on that here in New York and in -- in the exchanges between capitals. And I think that's really significant.

It's been a discussion that we've had at, I think, very serious levels, very intensely, and -- and in real good faith.

We haven't discussed the possibility of U.S. boots on the ground in Lebanon, but I think that we want to be open minded on what's doable here.

We could have a cessation of hostilities immediately if Hezbollah would stop terrorizing innocent civilians and give up the kidnapped Israeli soldiers. So, to the extent this crisis continues, the cause is Hezbollah.

It has to be done the right way or you risk finding yourself exactly back in the situation we were before the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers. That's not good for the people of Israel. It's -- perhaps even more importantly it's not good…

How do you get a cease-fire with a terrorist organization? I'm not sure anybody has ever done that before, and I'm not sure it's possible.