Recent presidents have gone off on ad hoc adventures. They have set unattainable goal because they have framed the issue incorrectly, as they believed their own rhetoric.

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

I think there are worse things than war. For example, injustice.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

A century is about events. A decade is about people.

Idealism is frequently another word for self-righteousness, a disease that can only be corrected by a profound understanding power in its complete sense.

The tragedy of the human condition is that the thing that makes us most human - community - originates in the inhumanity of war.

The poets think about war more than the social scientists.

I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

I have a lot of bitter memories from Beijing. Hopefully, we can erase those memories and bring the gold back to Japan.

I look at Homer and The Odyssey and all the disparate adventures this guy goes through, and then he returns home and the question is, is he the same man who left?

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Gods, how I’ve missed you. (Stryker) I hate you with every beat of my heart. (Zephyra)

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.