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.

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

The world needs a strong America.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

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

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.