Richard Holbrooke

Diplomacy is like jazz: endless variations on a theme.

In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

At the insistence of the Bush administration, Congress in 2006 passed legislation that required the Postal Service to prefund, over a 10-year period, 75 years of future retiree health benefits.

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments.