"[T]o say that the United States is bad because it behaves like a group of humans behave I think is a mistake. And I t…"

"The United States was losing interest in preserving European security, but at the same time it was hostile to Europea…"

"The vast majority of Europeans always believed that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein was more tolerable than the ri…"

"When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail."

"The force de frappe was little more than symbolism; it relieved neither France nor Europe from strategic dependence o…"

"Americans officials have found it hard to believe, but leading officials and politicians in Europe really have worrie…"

"When President Dwight Eisenhower undermined and humiliated Britain and France at Suez in 1956, it was only the most b…"

"[T]he Russians and Chinese see nothing natural in [the “color revolutions” of the former Soviet Union], only Western-…"

"American nationalism is not a blood-and-soil nationalism. No one's an American just because they were born in America…"

"Americans - one of the founders, Gouverneur Morris, described Americans as the first-born children of the commercial …"