The great divide in American foreign policy thinking is between those who believe in paper and those who believe in power.

Preemption is a kind of pre-deterrence that stops the threat at an earlier, safer stage.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

Obama is clearly a narcissist in the non-scientific use of the word. He is so self-involved, you see it from his rise.There’s not anyone of independent stature around him. There was in the first term, because he needed them to prop him up. But now that he entered a second term, he’s the master of the universe, so there’s nobody around him. He is impervious to outside advice, real advice that he takes.

Don't touch my junk, you airport security goon - my package belongs to no one but me, and do you really think I'm a Nigerian nut job preparing for my 72-virgin orgy by blowing my johnson to kingdom come?

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.

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.