I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

A rose trapped inside a fist.

Shirley Sherrod seems like a good and dedicated person.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.