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

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

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

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

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

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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