Dr. Susan Rice is one of our most capable national security thinkers.

The U.N. can do the same job in peacekeeping for about 12 cents on the dollar.

Israel is a stalwart ally and friend of the United States, and we will, as we have in the past, act in our interests in recognition of and support of that relationship.

I share your deep concern about the grave humanitarian situation in Haiti.

The President-elect has also said that he is deeply committed and will act from the earliest days of his administration to support the diplomacy that's necessary to help to try to bring about a two-state solution.

I think these last 8 years have been particularly frustrating because it seems somehow that the entire international community has lost the ability to act on its outrage.

it's a shame-- there's no other word for it--when the only country with which we're keeping company is Somalia.

I am really deeply honored to appear before you as the President-elect's designee to be the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations.

But now the challenge of putting those troops on the ground remains.

We have to recognize the reality that in many parts of the world what democracy will yield, at least in the short term, may not be what we would wish it to yield and may not be even constant with U.S. interests.

There have been obvious, numerous contacts, public contacts, between the Iranian regime and both Hezbollah and the external elements of Hamas.

We thought that we knew that Iraq was the most pressing threat because it possessed weapons of mass destruction. It did not. We preempted. We're now in a long-term entanglement in Iraq.