To be a statesman, you must first get elected.
The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.
A nation's budget is full of moral implications; it tells what a society cares about and what it does not care about; it tells what its values are.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.