Stephen J. Hadley: “The worst of all worlds would be to allocate too few ships to too many yards.”

Freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law are the very DNA of this Nation.

America has never accepted the idea that it had to choose between its democratic principles and its interests.

What I am troubled by is that if we make ultimately an accommodation with Assad, we send the message to the world that if you are brutal enough with your own people and kill enough of them, the international community will let you stay in…

I think the reason that the free world follows us and that despots and dictators fear us is because of our values.