One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

Obviously these conditions [violence, poverty] predate the [Barack] Obama presidency and the president has limited ways to dent this violence. But funding war weapons in cities, as opposed to more community policing, is not the solution.

I like to think that life lessons are learned and re-learned every day and take on importance at different times in life.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

The president [Barack Obama] did introduce a jobs bill that could not clear Congress. The Republicans simply would not work with him.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.