Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

Vote for me and I will ensure that everyone gets enough to eat and a place to stay.

Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.

Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.

Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken more seriously by government functionaries than are appeals by human rights groups.

The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.