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

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

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.

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

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

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

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.