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.

American power confers benefits on most inhabitants of the planet, even on many who dislike it and some who actively oppose it, because the United States plays a major, constructive, and historically unprecedented role in the world.

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

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

One thing worse than an America that is too strong, the world will learn, is an America that is too weak.

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

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