The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.
Shockingly enough, what people say during campaigns is meant to increase the odds they get elected.
Hillary Clinton is pretty much what we would call a foreign-policy realist, someone who thinks the purpose of American foreign policy should be to adjust the foreign policies of other countries, work closely with traditional allies in Europe and Asia towards that end.
Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going to end with a unified peninsula, and it's go to be under Seoul, not Pyongyang.
States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves.
China likes the idea of sovereign rights when it comes to organizing their politics as they see fit, and their economics. But they may grudgingly come to understand certain things differently in the area of climate or disease. China is a country fairly integrated into the world. Yet China is uncomfortable with this idea because they worry it will constrain their freedom, politically and economically, to do what they believe they need to do to maintain political stability and cohesion.
Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty. . . needs to become weaker.
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal. " It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man. " It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man. " It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal. "