We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.

And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

Look, I don't even agree with myself at times.

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created