When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

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

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. I saw most of Congress as uncivil, incompetent at fulfilling their basic constitutional responsibilities (such as timely appropriations), micromanagerial, parochial, hypocritical, egotistical, thin-skinned and prone to put self (and re-election) before country.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Development is a lot cheaper than sending soldiers.

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