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

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

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

America's civilian institutions of diplomacy and development have been chronically undermanned and underfunded for far too long.

I think Donald Trump has gotten China's attention to a degree that his predecessors have not that this is a very serious matter for the United States.