Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

I think there is a potential civic culture in Arab countries that can lead to democratic institutions and I think Iraq is probably the best place to put that proposition to the test Well, you're going to find a disproportionate number of Jews in any sort of intellectual undertaking.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

When you gaze into souls, it's something you should update periodically, because souls can change.

The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

No one is talking about occupying Iraq for five to ten years.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.