I Consider Myself A Republican.

I've Been Very Sensitive For A Long Time To The Repeated Pattern, During Economic Hard Times Or After A War, Of The United States' Essentially Unilaterally Disarming.

No Policy Has Proved More Successful In Making Friends For The United States, During The Cold War And Since, Than Educating Students From Abroad At Our Colleges And Universities.

Congress Is Best Viewed From A Distance - The Farther The Better - Because Up Close, It Is Truly Ugly.

I Think In The Context Of Senior Government Positions, I Think An Anecdote Of What I Told President-elect Barack Obama When We Had Our First Meeting. And I Said, "you Don't Know Me. Can You Trust Me? Why Do You Think You Can Trust Me?" And So On. But At The End, I Said, "you Can Count On Me To Be Loyal To You. I Will Not Leak. I Will Keep My Disagreements With You Private. And If I Cannot Be Loyal, I'll Leave." Loyalty Means Doing What You Think Is In The Best Interest Of That Person As Well As The Country.

Some People Have Said, In So Many Words, That I'm Kind Of Wooly-headed In Believing That The Iranians Would See Not Having Nuclear Weapons As More In Their Security Interest Than Not.