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

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

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

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

The world needs a strong America.

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.