A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.

There isn't any way for the people of Nicaragua to find out what's going on in Nicaragua.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Honduras was the original 'banana republic,' and its poverty remains extreme.

When freedom of the press is threatened, the United States should be leading efforts to protect it.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

Christmas was definitely the best thing ever, even better than pizza. But instead of all her favorite toppings, Amitola was surrounded by all her favorite people.

Outdated ideas inevitably lead to outdated behaviors.

God's timing is always on time.

No one remembers who took second place and that will neverbe me.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

There's nothing better than going out there and performing and making that connection with audiences. Even after all this time I get the biggest buzz from that.