Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.

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

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

To call the American role in the world imperial was, for many who did so, a way of asserting that the United States was misusing its power beyond its borders and, in so doing, subverting its founding political principles within them.

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

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

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.