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

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

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

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.

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

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

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.