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

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

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

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.

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

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

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.