For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history, which is why he was re-elected by the largest plurality in the country's history.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I have long thought that his [Rupert Murdoch's] social philosophy was contained in his cartoon show, The Simpsons: all politicians and public officials are crooks, and the masses are a vast lumpen proletariat of deluded and exploitable blowhards.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.