Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

I'm determined to disagree with people without being disagreeable. That's part of the empathy. Empathy doesn't just extend to cute little kids. You have to have empathy when you're talking to some guy who doesn't like black people.

Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide.

Never give up on your dreams.