High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital; it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered; they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make.

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

I don't consider China a communist state, no. I know that sounds paradoxical, but it's my view.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

Does anyone have any questions for my answers?

The members of the Islamic Staye have cut the throat of an American on television. This is an insult to the United States, which requires that we demonstrate that this is not an act that is free. I would strongly favor a strong attack on ISIS for a period that is related to the murder of the American.