"Gary James Schmitt" served as executive director (1999–2001) and president (2002–2005) of the New Citizenship Project before becoming the executive director of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) from 1998 to 2005. He is now a resident scholar and co-director of the American Enterprise Institute’s Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies launched in 2012.

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Because of our power, they like to test the limits of that power.

People underestimate the degree to which having leaders who can get along makes a big difference. But there aren't any huge expectations that somehow relations between Germany and the United States will be transformed overnight or approach anything like the way they were before the Cold War ended.

It does share the (Clinton) formula in that essentially, the North Koreans, for their breaking out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and breaking their agreement with the Clinton administration, are going to get a long list of goodies.