I hope Barack Obama puts another woman on the Supreme Court. And this time, I hope it's a woman with kids.

There are real threats but there's a difference between recognizing real threats and an irrational kind of apocalyptic threat.

Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

I think the tragedy of Barack Obama's presidency is that although a lot of people around the world really admire Barack Obama a lot, they don't admire the American political and economic model as much as they used to.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.

Foreign policy is a little bit like a guy who goes to Las Vegas. If you win too much, then you eventually bet the mortgage. You start to think you are infallible.