Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

To stop terrorists before the strike, we must do three things: deny them entry into the country, curtail their freedom of action inside the country, and deprive them of material and moral support from within the country.

Dictatorships start wars because they need external enemies to exert internal control over their own people.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.