People always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

You don't have to keep looking at the future foreign policy in terms, simply, of the past.

Immigration is good for a country. It brings fresh energy.

You've got problems in Central Asia. And you've got problems within our own communities back home. So if we end up saying, look, this has nothing to do with Islam or it's got no connection with that broader question, then we look, frankly, as if we're in denial about the problem. And the interesting thing in the Middle East is that they have absolutely no problem there in identifying that as Islamist extremism and calling it that.