At Guantanamo Bay, we could create a West Berlin, a free small city within the Communist nation that could trade freely with the U.S. and elect its own officials.

Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad.

The Pope is not a political figure.

You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.

If you say to the White House, 'Obama has been very unfriendly to Israel,' they say, 'What do you mean? It's the best military-to-military relationship ever.' And that part is true.

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.

Both Bibi and Obama realize that they are going to have to face the problem of Iran together.

We need to understand that an open society and free speech and press... really are the best weapons against al Qaeda and extremism.

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

If you said to people you can cast a secret ballot on whether to turn back the clock and have Morsi in power again, I don't think very many people in Washington would turn back that clock.

Persecution of Christians is growing around the world, and Congress needs to pay more attention to it.

The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms.

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.

The real crime of Hosni Mubarak is that he ruled for 30 years and left behind an Egypt where the Muslim Brotherhood is the single strongest player.

There's been an Israeli position, which is 'We love Mubarak,' that permeates their whole society, the political class. That certainly differs from many of us in the pro-Israel camp in the United States.

China has concluded that trade trumps all.

The Sandinistas are a tough bunch of guys, with a fabulous amount of Soviet Bloc equipment and Soviet Bloc advisers.

Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.