Stephen J. Hadley: “We need to shame him for it. And then, hopefully, the Europeans will show in their response that they are willing to…”

We need to put pressure on President Karzai but really to encourage all aspects of the Afghan system to put pressure on Karzai and the Parliament to get this legislation enacted and to get the people appointed.

President Bush early on in his administration said that the U.S. policy of trying to purchase stability at the price of supporting these authoritarian regimes was a bad bargain; that authoritarian regimes are not stable, and they needed to…

I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.

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