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.

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.

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

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.

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

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

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