If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.