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

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.

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

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.

when you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.

Felt good, though, just being what I was.

My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.

One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.

The only new thing is history we don't know.

I still favor alternatives to governmental race-based preferences.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.