"[T]o reduce global poverty and inequality through rigorous research and active engagement with the policy community to make the world a more prosperous, just, and safe place for us all."

"To strengthen democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform."

"[D]irectly engages Capitol Hill and the executive branch on the nationís most important national security issues.... [F]ocuses on several areas of national, economic, and regional security."

Provides "strategic insights and policy solutions to decisionmakers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society."

"[T]o inform public debates [from Center-based research and analysis] over proposed budget and tax policies [at federal and state levels] and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates."

"[D]edicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries."

"[T]o provide a vision of a sustainable future and a plan for how to get from here to there."

"To inform people and empower them to seek solutions that will ensure broadly shared prosperity and opportunity."

To assure "that globalization works with market forces to achieve maximum benefits rather than distorting markets, and imposing costs."

"[D]edicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are access to clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and flourishing ecosystems."

"[D]evoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach....[F]ocused on three priorities that are essential to global security:

• strengthening institutions for international peace and security
• building regional security, and
• reducing weapons of mass destruction and transnational threats."

"[T]o formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense."

"[F]rom its records, to recall the voice of experience against the making of war, and by the study of these records and their publication, to recall man's endeavors to make and preserve peace, and to sustain for America the safeguards of the American way of life." – Herbert Hoover, statement to the Board of Trustees of Stanford University, 1959.

"[D]edicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom."

"[D]edicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world."