A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.
The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than...
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it...
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace...
It is after all the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar...
The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they...
Most foreign policies that history has marked highly in whatever country...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.