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

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

[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.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.