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

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

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

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.

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.