Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.

Clearly security without values is like a ship without a rudder. But values without security are like a rudder without a ship.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

Now when I bore people at a party they think it's their fault.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.