When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign policy follows Machiavelli.