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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.