Success Quote by Herman Cain

Cain’s voice here is the voice of the boardroom repurposed for geopolitics: clear lines, hard priorities, no patience for ambiguity. “Made it real clear” doesn’t just praise Netanyahu’s position; it praises a posture - decisiveness as moral virtue. Cain frames negotiations like a deal sheet: you can sweeten the package (“generous on some other concessions”), but you don’t renegotiate the core asset. In business terms, borders are the non-negotiable term, the thing you don’t trade away because everything else depends on it.

The subtext is an American conservative instinct translated into Middle East policy: security and sovereignty outrank procedural compromise. Cain’s “And I don’t blame him” is doing more than signaling agreement. It preemptively shuts down the expected critique - that refusing border flexibility is obstructionist - by casting the refusal as common sense. The phrase invites listeners to see themselves in the decision: if you were responsible for protecting a home, a company, a country, you’d draw the line too.

Context matters. Cain, a businessman-turned-politician who rose with Tea Party energy, often favored blunt clarity over diplomatic nuance. That makes this remark less a granular policy analysis than a cultural statement about strength: leaders are judged not by how artfully they compromise, but by whether they keep the “border issue” sacred. The line is revealing in what it leaves out: whose border, which map, what costs. That omission isn’t accidental; it’s the rhetorical move. By stripping away the human and historical mess, Cain makes the stance feel tidy, reasonable, even inevitable.