There's no deep bench there, Mahmoud Abbas is, I think, the best leader of the Palestinians we could field.

He came in with lots of baggage. . . . No one would have been surprised had he not been a star. But he dispelled all of that very quickly.

I think I am aggressive, I think I am critical when it's necessary.

I think a balanced team of men and women makes better decisions. That's one of the reasons why I was prepared to run for deputy leader.

But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.

We need spies that look like their targets, CIA officers who speak the dialects terrorists use, and FBI agents who can speak to Muslim women who might be intimidated by men.