Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

We don't want it to get to that point. We want Venezuela to fulfill its obligations under the Vienna Convention to help provide protection for our diplomats there.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

When pepper is ground, it oxidizes and loses its oils. It has no pungency. If you buy ground pepper always look for the sell-by date.

When all else fails there's always delusion

America has lost its capacity for being indignant, ... Where has our capacity for indignation gone? When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next? And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured -- and we can't go to his rescue -- will show us exactly what we have done.