A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

The reality is, the United States has global interests. Our defense budget is about the same as the defense budgets or military budgets of every other country in the world put together.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a wrong premise, that there were in fact no weapons of nuclear - weapons of mass destruction.

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Congress is best viewed from a distance - the farther the better - because up close, it is truly ugly.