The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.