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

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

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

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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