It's worth remembering George W. Bush, Barack Obama also came in thinking they had the magic key to better, warmer relations with Russia; those efforts ended in tears.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.

I would like to see someone with more traditional foreign policy experience and, obviously, his views and attitudes towards Russia will be a big part of the confirmation hearings [instead of Rex Tillerson].

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.