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

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

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

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.

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

The world needs a strong America.

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.