Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard.

[Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.

We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions.