The understanding that the political and intellectual class of the United States has of Mexico is a country whose position is that of a back yard.

My work at the United Nations discomforted some members of the U.S. government, which exercises its power beyond collective understandings and international law.

Servants are not allowed to ask questions. They are only supposed to follow orders. That attitude has to change. But in order for it to change, there has to be radical improvement in the quality of the intelligence produced by the Mexican government.

Countries only have certain opportunities in history, and if you do not take advantage of them, those opportunities don't ever come back to you again.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

We've got tax and regulatory policies in this country that are driving a lot of businesses overseas, and so I think there's a lot that we can do using principles of constitutionally limited government to help address people who share these concerns.