African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s.

I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions

Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade.

We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force.