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

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

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

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.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.