China is playing the role of mediator. Its hosting of the six-party talks forces the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to sit at the negotiating table and work toward a...

the customs of society and laws of the State allowed it to crush my aspirations and barred me from the the pursuit of almost every object worthy of an intelligent, rational mind.”45 What law has...

We cannot understand why the United States often sent its planes to make surveillance flights in areas so close to China,

Both China and the United States are great countries and share a wide range of common interests and basis for cooperation,

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two.

An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter’s red...

The path to a sustained victory in Afghanistan lies in improving their economy, creating jobs for the Afghanis, strengthening their government and national services, getting the provinces to trust each other and work together, and...

I don’t know if anyone in the United States has a much tougher trip. We have to go 2,000 miles and a long, long ways. Is it a do or die game? Heck no. Do...

I believe profoundly that in the struggle against Communists and their organizations […] we cannot and should not resort to the methods and forms employed by the Communists.

It’s good to be back in the United States,

There is no rift between the United States and South Korea. We are close allies. We are close partners in a broad bilateral relationship and particularly in our common approach to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.

This is that moment in the hangover in which you discover that your keys are in your hat, the cat is in the sink, and you attempted late the previous night to make stew out...

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would...

In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public...

I think the essential message was that Saddam Hussein represented a serious threat to the United States and to our friends and allies in the region.

Bush violated FISA […] because he wanted to violate the law in order to establish the general ‘principle’ that he was not bound by the law, to show that he has the power to break...

The United States has been ambiguous on the current situation in Nepal. They have not actually come out very strongly in terms of pushing the king to take measures on the detentions or abuses by...

Gov. Christie says ‘New Jersey First.’ State-based Isolationism!

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

To allow this program to lapse could potentially jeopardize thousands of dairy farms throughout the United States,

I’m amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the...

Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not […]. So, I believe that what Congress is going to do,...

Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I’m post-tweeting today. I’ll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists.

The Humane Society of the United States applauds Ford Motor Company for being part of the solution, working for humane and sensible treatment of America’s majestic wild horses.

I don’t like the continuing monopolistic policy of the United States.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

So here we have found a means of a) alienating even the most flexible and patient Palestinians; while b) frustrating the efforts of the more principled and compromising Israelis; while c) empowering and financing some...

A little later, the Apollo mission was consummated and there were Americans on the moon. I remember distinctly looking up from the quad on what was quite a moon-flooded night, and thinking about it. They...

The United States can no longer claim that [the duty] is WTO consistent.

The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work...

Although they may be reckless with the security of the United States, I think they are utterly cold-blooded realists when it comes to political power.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to keep from peeing on themselves.

I loved representing the United States. And I actually think being the first is terrific because I kind of set the standard, … … I had the opportunity to chart the way.

There’s no improvisation here. Cuba has a plan to face hurricanes. The United States doesn’t. It is vital that everyone be well informed, without sensationalism or cause for alarm. We do not turn hurricanes into...

They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

The only way to Cuba is with the CIA.

Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world’s confusion, so wistful of good, so cocksure on the outside, so...

Talks with the United States have no benefit for us and are harmful to us,

The United States plane in the area raised questions and the questions were not fully addressed by the Peruvian aircraft.

I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian protectors, and on that ‘issue’ I hope I can continue to expose and...

The closest thing to Kfar Darom in the United States is the Alamo. Imagine pulling people out of this place. They are heroes of Israel and we owe them a great deal after they are...

The United States condemns the terrorist bombings in Bali that claimed innocent lives and injured many more. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims, and we wish a speedy recovery to...

You can make a successful run for political office in this country without an especially thick résumé, any exceptional talent for expressing yourself, a noteworthy education or, for that matter, a basic grasp of science.But...

[The fact that the United States is] arguably the world’s most powerful nation, … a larger target for those who don’t share our interests, values or beliefs.

Iran now has many more cards in confronting the United States than the United States has in confronting Iran.

We want to put them under pressure. Although they (United States) have developed greatly in recent years, we think they make mistakes under pressure.

Of course he had a female following. Was there anything college girls found sexier than being told what to think?

Every war and conflict that the United States enters has its own ROE [rules of engagement]. Contrary to what most people think, the U.S. military does not have a complete license to kill, even in...