"I need caffeine. I need sugar. I need beef."

"Understand that you're now in a superheated atmosphere; there are all kinds of rumors floating around. And one of the…"

"Your 15 minutes are here, Friedman... I'm just saying, all your life you know useless and obscure things. And suddenl…"

"The United States Navy controls all of the oceans of the world."

"The twenty-first century will be the American century."

"[T]he twenty-first century truly began on September 11, 2001, ten years later, when planes slammed into the World Tra…"

"Al Qaeda has failed in its goals. The United States has succeeded, not so much in winning the war as in preventing th…"

"The twenty-first century has begun with an American success that on the surface looks like not only a defeat but a de…"

"Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civi…"

"Japan must import all of its major minerals, from oil to aluminum. Without those imports-particularly oil-Japan stops…"