After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and convert….

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it..

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that.….

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides..

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy..

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on….

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States..

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes..

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics….

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped..

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire..

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power..

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United St….

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world..

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong..

Great wars can only be fought by great powers..

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports..

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries..

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must..

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasi….

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak..