It is nasty and brutish without being short,

By 2010, Africa could be providing the United States with as many oil imports as the Middle East.

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake he said. They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much.

push them further into the arms of their Communist supporters.

If confirmed, my job will be to present the views of the intelligence community, and my own judgment, unvarnished and unprejudiced, ... We must have an intelligence process of absolute integrity.

I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."