In this town, if you give good advice and if you are discreet about that advice, you are very valuable. And that is what Dick Cheney provides for the president.

Our country needs people who are maybe a little less focused on themselves and on the flash and a little more focused on how do we actually create a better environment for success for our young people, how do we get people back to work, how do we regain our standing internationally.

I'm very encouraged by the talks and I'm very hopeful that we can deepen our economic relationship with Korea through an FTA, but we're not quite there yet.

President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do.

While we continue to believe that a long-term, durable settlement is the only way to resolve this dispute, Canada's actions complicate our attempts to reach a negotiated solution.

At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences.