The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were spectacular, riveting, grim, costly and searing. The shock that they caused reverberated throughout the world. What happened in New York and Washington and Pennsylvania ended the lives of thousands of people and changed the lives of many more. But they did not change the world.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

American foreign policy, for all its shortcomings, has underpinned political stability around the world.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.