France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

American influence is not what it used to be.

My friends all say I’m going to be Secretary of State, [but] I don’t see how that would be much different from the job I have now

I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.

But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.