I'm constantly asking for alternative views on most things that come to me..

Our security depends on having good relationships with our allies. Donald Trump mainly shows contempt for them..

One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war..

I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away..

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring..

Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb i….

China, in the future, is going to have even more nuclear capability than it has had in the past. I don't believe that they have anything to fear from….

It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern Euro….

It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure….

There's a lot of money to pay for this ... the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two ….

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all..

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution..

People change their habits. I know Americans who don't go to Paris because they think it is too dangerous..

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them..

I think one has to say it's not just simply a matter of capturing people and holding them accountable, but removing the sanctuaries, removing the sup….

You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem..

I think Obama sees everything through one lens. Doing nothing in the face of the slaughter in Syria is not only shameful, it is unrealistic. This app….

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views..

If the Arab world today looked like Tunisia, it would be a huge blow for the extreme ideologies. But Tunisia needs more support than it is getting, p….

The Western alliance should have supported the Sunni opposition against the Assad regime from the beginning. As far as Iraq is concerned, if it had s….

We are already seeing a degree of instability in the world because Obama seems to have consciously wanted to step back. Donald Trump is going to be "….