There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.

You don't ever earn a right to stop doing anything if you feel there is an obligation to move in terms of public service.

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece's free-spending budget was based. It would be difficult for any country, or intergovernmental organization, to rescue an economy the size of the U.S. if investors were ever to lose faith in our bonds because of our enormous debt.

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black man elected president.

Suppose something would happen to the president, who would be in charge? The Vice President. Joe Biden? You have got to be kidding today when you say the Taliban's not our enemy.