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

The world needs a strong America.

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.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

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

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