The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

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

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