If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.

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.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.