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.

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

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.

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

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

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.