In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.

Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.

The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.

First of all, the world criticizes American foreign policy because Americans criticize American foreign policy. We shouldn't be surprised about that. Criticizing government is a God-given right - at least in democracies.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.