When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.