My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.
In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism.
I've been surrounded by some of the best economic minds in the country, and hopefully I've absorbed some of that.
Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the twentieth century - freedom against Communism - so too it is largely on the sidelines in our contemporary struggles against international terrorism and ...
I've been subject to how many security clearance procedures and I must say as irritating as some people may find them I think they are absolutely essential to making sure that people who work in sensitive positions in the national security field in o...
Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.
I've been in the government bureaucracy, I've practiced law, I've done a lot of different things.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
I'm not sure history has ended.
A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
I don't think there is any good answer to the question why shouldn't gays and lesbians who want to serve their country be allowed to do it.
When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regime that is subject to classic theories of deterrence.
Don't get me wrong: I would love to be president.
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability - it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year.
Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.
Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.
