I think it would be a genuine mistake if the focus today was on confrontation without thinking of the remarkable aspect of yesterday's meeting, ... Views were exchanged, problems were discussed without polemics.

A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

These two countries are cheek-by-jowl,

Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.