The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.

The single worst campaign slogan I have ever heard, is Hillary's Clinton, "I'm with her," it means nothing. It absolutely means nothing to anybody. I mean, it's about appealing - and it says nothing about anybody's life, about the country.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.

We have weakened the parties and strengthened all the special interests.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.