Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

I don't really care how or why Obama got to the right place on gay marriage. I'm just glad he got there.

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost.

Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you're likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion - hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.

My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.