In The 2000 Election, George W. Bush,

When Dictators Feel Their Support Slipping Among Adults, It Is Not Unusual For Them To Alter School Textbooks In The Hope Of Enlisting Impressionable Youths In Their Cause.

My Second Epiphany Came As An Intern At The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace. The Man I Worked For Was Consumed With What Was Going On In Bosnia. And The More I Knew [about It] The More Saddened I Was. There Were These Images Of Emaciated Men Behind Barbed Wire.... It Was Like, I've Got To Find A Way To Do Something.

President Reagan, Of Course, Did More Than Any Other Person To Entrench The Republican Reputation For Toughness On National Security.

I Think About Syria When I Go To Bed At Night.

Democracies Are Expense-averse And They Think In Terms Of Short-term, Political Interests Rather Than A Long-term Interest In Stability.