1. Mike Gravel (AK), “Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa,” August 19, 2007;
2. Richard Cheney, “Remarks by the Vice President and Mrs. Cheney Followed by Question and Answer at a Town Hall Meeting, Tallahassee, Florida,” October 6, 2004,
3. John Woolley and Gerhard Peters, eds., The American Presidency Project,
http://www.presidencyucsb.edu/
[accessed July 9, 2010].
4. Recent books with an “imperial theme” include Andrew J. Bacevich, American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 2004);
5. Niall Fergusson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004);