There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.

We as a nation have an obligation to help rebuild, but that doesn't necessarily mean just like it was.