I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

I began my journalistic career on the day Ronald Reagan was sworn in. That's the day I showed up for work at 'The New Republic' magazine.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

The international community lies at the center of the Obama foreign policy. Unfortunately, it is a fiction. There is no such thing. Different countries have different histories, geographies, necessities, and interests. There's no natural, inherent, or enduring international community.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933... Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.