American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

The most powerful force in the world is not a weapon or a nation but a truth: that we are spiritual beings, and that freedom is 'the soul's right to breathe.'

Some have tried to pose a choice between American ideals and American interests - between who we are and how we act. But the choice is false. America, by decis…

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not sto…

And we have so much work to do in America, because all across America, there are walls ... There's a wall around Washington, D.C. The American people are, toda…

A foreign policy aimed at the achievement of total security is the one thing I can think of that is entirely capable of bringing this country to a point where …

The [Bush] Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship wi…