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

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

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

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

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.

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

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