I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.

When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.

Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find - and there will be plenty.

Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

Based on all criteria - military power, economic influence, cultural dominance - America remains number one, even though other, new players are increasingly challenging it in that role.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch

Thoughts are magnetic. What we think about we attract.

I was born at a very young age

Wow, that was an expensive looking explosion! I can't believe we had that in the budget.

You've made a beast of yourself, - to the beasts you may go.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing you have long postponed.

A man that doesn't have a woman doesn't know if he is one (a "man").

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