People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.