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

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

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

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

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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