A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler.

How will decent people in the region ever believe in peace if Arab terrorists interpret every gesture of peace as a display of weakness and then act accordingly?

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight.

The Lord gave us Ten Commandments, but the bill before the House today gives us 39.

The question isn't why organic food is so darned expensive, it's really about why chemically sprayed, poisoned food is so cheap.

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

I can't not put myself in the shoes of every person I pass.

When you get a big crisis, everyone wants somebody with some experience and some credibility.

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

Give to a wounded heart seclusion; consolation nor reason ever effected anything in such a case.

I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.