I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

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

International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

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.