If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

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

After all, the past is our only real guide to the future, and historical analogies are instruments for distilling and organizing the past and converting it to a map by which we can navigate.

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.