Richard Holbrooke: “There's no Ho Chi Minh. There's no Slobodan Milosevic. There's no Palestinian Authority.”

I don't think that we have been candid enough with the American people about the commitment that we're going to have to make in Afghanistan if we intend to be successful.

The words 'Kerry-Lugar' have become a symbol of American support for Pakistan in the emergency.

Haiti's vulnerability to natural disaster is not just a matter of weak building codes and poor infrastructure, but, more fundamentally, the result of having an exceptionally weak state.

Our objective for the London Conference is clear: to demonstrate the international community's support for Afghanistan's future.