We have no vital national interest in Syria's civil war.

Why is Assad more responsible for all the deaths in Syria than those fighting to overthrow and kill him?

Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?

Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.

Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.

Russia and China, which have embraced autocratic capitalism, have attracted admirers and emulators by the seeming success of their strongman rule.

Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?

As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dreamed of by Wilsonian idealists. It is a Balkanizing world where race, tribe, culture and creed matter most, and democracy is seen not as an end in itself but as a means to an end - the accretion of power by one's own kind to achieve one's own dreams.

In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.

The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.

I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.

McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.

I opposed the World Trade Organization.

The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

That a district judge would overrule the president of the United States on a matter of border security in wartime is absurd.

The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.