The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four years later, Japan was in ruins, utterly defeated.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

The dirty little secret of the intelligence world is that much of what you really need to know isn't exactly a secret anyway.

I have nothing against Dylan O'Brien! He's one of my favorite people. I have so much respect for him and his work.

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Hair color is the easiest way to change your appearance, but a bad dye job might draw more attention to you.

Subversion is what I do.

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.

The rich countries are rich because of their practices at home, and because of their readiness to adopt and adapt new things, such as Chinese inventions or New World crops.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

Labeled a delinquent. That's the only kind of label I want to be crucified under.

Any time we give people the ability to use force, we have to be very careful. It's sort of like the people who spy on us - you've got to watch the watchers.