Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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

The world needs a strong America.