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