Richard N. Haass: “Pakistan is a strategically vital country with which we must engage for our own national security.”

He doesn't want Ukraine to be a thriving democracy that would set an example that some people in Russia might notice and say, why there, not here?

This legislation sponsored by Chairman Kerry, myself, and Howard Berman in the House, attempts to expand United States-Pakistani ties beyond military matters.

To be honest, it doesn't. The big events of this spring are the upheavals in the Arab world. And what was, to me noticeable about these upheavals is what they were not about. People were not burning Israeli flags; they were not burning…

America's credibility is not on the line. We are the greatest Nation in the history of the world.