Stephen J. Hadley: “An American withdrawal or stepping back right now would be a prescription for fast failure and chaos that would envelope…”

We need to have not just be talking about democracy; we've got to have a conscious strategy for how to counter what they're doing.

I think the Arab states have largely been very shortsighted about this and very stingy.

We have to show that our politics can actually, on a bipartisan basis, solve some of the problems we face.

Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.