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

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

We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

I think we have an administration today that is dysfunctional. And if it can't get itself together to organize a serious program for finding nuclear material on its way to the United States, then it ought to be replaced by an administration that can.

Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.