When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

Americans need to face the truth about themselves, no matter how pleasant it is.

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred

There is no pure free-market economy.

For all their faults, right-wing authoritarian regimes more easily accept democratic reforms than left-wing totalitarian states.