To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

To love country means to rise above I am because I am. It is to recognize that I am because we are.

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.