The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason.

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "Obama squared," a more extreme version of the same thing.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Every math curriculum in the world is based on the idea of hand-calculating, and most of what you're teaching is how to calculate. And I think the resistance to this is very variable.

History is just littered with problems that were solved that were supposed to be impossible.

I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.