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

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

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

The United States contributes to peace in both by serving as a buffer between and among regional powers that, while not preparing for armed conflict, do not fully trust one another.

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

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.