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

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

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.

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

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

There's a ton of academic literature that shows people are much more critical of female leaders than they are of male leaders. They're much less tolerant of female ambition, much more threatened by female power.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.