We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.

The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.

At the end of the day, there is no doubt that the unique spirit embodied by this country has worked, not just to make the world safer, but to make it better.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.