When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.

The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

I'm a Democrat, and there are an important group of things only the government can do. But let us be clear that for most of the world, what they most need is less government.

At 14 you are still in most respects a dependent youth, in some respects a child. At 24 you are an adult. In between, extraordinary turbulences take place.

Liberty lives in protest and democracy prospers under conditions of change. When we travel about the world and come to a country whose newspapers are filled with bad news we feel that liberty lives in that land. When we come to a country whose newspapers are filled with good news, we feel differently.

We have the right to our own opinions, but not our own facts.