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

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

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

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.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

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