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.

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.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

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

We need more leadership at every level: federal, state, and local.

Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'

Well, the federal government has a responsibility to provide leadership in bringing together provinces.

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.