Retreat might give us a moment of respite but years of repentance at our weakness would, I believe, follow.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Education is the best economic policy there is.

One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

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

There are literally thousands of sites. As I was told in Iraq, information is coming in the entire time, but it is only now that the Iraq survey group has been put together that a dedicated team of people, which includes former UN inspectors, scientists and experts, will be able to go in and do the job properly.