My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

It is easy to get used to the morning news, habituated. But don't. The morning news is yours to alter.

Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.

If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

I think we do have an interest in combating states that try to cross borders and steal parts of other people's country.