America cannot commit to go to war on behalf of 50 countries around the world because that is the formula that is one day going to break down and break out into war.

There has been sort of, if you will, a moral interventionism on the part of the United States trying to reshape countries in our own image. Now, we had to go into Afghanistan. We didn't have to go into Iraq. But the idea that you could create a Vermont in the Middle East like that was naive from the beginning.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

Are you attracted by his new ideas or his new poll ratings?

Today, candor compels us to admit that our vaunted two-party system is a snare and a delusion, a fraud upon the nation. Our two parties have become nothing but two wings of the same bird of prey.

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?