Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000, they hassled George W Bush for not having it. They didn't realise what this book succinctly displays: that the president has something far more important - CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information and make discerning decisions.

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

A job should employ God-given talents in a way that glorifies Him.

Since governmental quotas expand bureaucratic power, provoke a backlash and are unfair to individuals, we need to find a better way to increase minority opportunities.

But to understand what it means to be strong and courageous, Christians should look to the person of Christ.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.