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

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.

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

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

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

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

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.