If you make a list of nations that think we suck now that didn't think we sucked in 2000, it's pretty short. Countries like France are actually coming around to our direction.

I went through Britain, France and Italy after the Iraq War started, and never got treated with anything other than courtesy. In a park in Nice, some guy from Britain actually approached me and expressed his approval of what we're doing.

When you hear "the world hates us" from a leftist, what it means is "leftists around the world hate us."

A lot of people confuse amused contempt and the knowledge that we're not going to make problems for them with "respect." It isn't. "Respect" and being "liked" are not congruent sets, and the intersection between them isn't that big.

God help us if we ever get someone in the Oval Office whose main concern is whether or not we're "liked." It's easy to be "liked." You just do whatever the other guy wants.