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

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

No operational commander should have to assign a soldier a task that could be done as well by a computer, a remote sensor, or an unmanned airplane.

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.

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.