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

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

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

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.

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.

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.