In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye.

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.