My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery.
Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U. S. forces find - and there will be plenty.
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
International order is not an evolution; it is an imposition. It is the domination of one vision over others- in this case, the domination of liberal free market principles of economics, democratic principles of politics, and a peaceful international system over other visions that other nations and peoples may have. It will last only as long as those who favor it retain the capacity to defend it.
I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
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.
Sometimes there a hundred lies behind a smile and not a single truth behind a tear.
My talent was the weapon, the power, the way for me to fight. It was the one way I might hope to affect a man's thinking.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
Rule No. 12: shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.