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On the human rights side, administration policy has been marked by indifference. When the people of Iran flooded the streets to protest the theft of their presidential election in June 2009, President Obama was silent for 11 days.

Let's face it, the Obama administration was handed a pretty poor deal from the previous administration.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

Again, President Reagan was sort of an amiable presence out at the ranch by the last 6 months of his presidency. He had no effect on national policy at all.

I'm not apologetic with respect to the policies of the Bush administration. I think we basically got it right.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

I have no problem saying that I have differences in policy with the United States.

It seems clear to me that the Obama Administration has no human rights policy. That is, while in some inchoate sense they would like respect for human rights to grow around the world, as all Americans would, they have no actual policy to achieve that goal - and they subordinate it to all their other policy goals.

Bush will keep up that policy that gives the United State the role of promoting freedom in the world.