We fully acknowledge that public diplomacy is only part of the picture,

Karen understands that 'It's the policies, stupid,'

We, the United States, are not in any significant way present in the daily discourse, the debates, the discussions, the conversations that are going on in the Arab Muslim world about us,

There are very important political calendars at play here for each of the leaders,

I never refuse. I contradict. I sometimes forget.

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.