I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

American influence is not what it used to be.

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

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

I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.