Everything in our foreign and domestic policy is a question of issue for the American people to vote on.

The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

The American people deserve an honest assessment of the state of our foreign affairs.

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.