Has the world gotten 2.6 percent more dangerous? I would say it has.

I think we have a good strategy, but it is imperative that we deliver quickly when it really does matter.

Sooner rather than later would be the goal.

I really believe that would be a mistake.

Is it the position of this administration to deny them the ability to become a nuclear threshold state?

The problem is that their government, as Senator Leahy says, is very dysfunctional.

Well, sooner rather than later would be the goal.

You can have Islamic conservative governments. That is totally understandable to me. But those governments have to reach out not only to their neighbors, but the world at large.

If we err--if we err in judging Iran, don't you think we should err on the side of making sure they don't develop nuclear capability?

I think the Senator from Tennessee picked the best example I can think of simply because the Charleston harbor deepening is probably the No. 1 issue for the State of South Carolina. The Panama Canal is going to be widened and the cargo…

I feel we need to impose those sanctions as aggressively as we can.

The Arab Spring to me is a defining opportunity for change in the Arab world.

I think we are down to 600 American military personnel.

I would argue that we need to be looking at Syria through the same prism, that people are literally being slaughtered.

I support the idea that United Nations subdivisions not unilaterally confer statehood on the Palestinians without first negotiating with the Israelis.

I have always believed that we are fighting an idea, not just a person, that killing bin Laden is a great accomplishment for the United States.

I think USAID is changing for the better, that you have thought outside the box.

I worry tremendously about Pakistan. Pakistan, to me, is the place most likely to fall if we don't get it right in Afghanistan.

I hope we can persuade him to step down. It doesn't seem to be that we are very successful right now.

We urge the Congress to enact balanced deficit reduction legislation that avoids sequestration.

I have a very high opinion of her.

A lot of it is siphoned off by corrupt officials.

I would like that to be the United States, not China.

Tunisia is a good example of where, if we could work with the international community to provide some budget assistance for 2 years, I think we could turn the country around.

I just think that is the signal to send the United Nations. You are not doing Israel and the Palestinian people much of a service when you go around the peace process.