You can be stylish, and powerful too.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back.

We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process.

So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed

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

It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.