Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

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

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

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

Inequality of any kind, once considered a normal, natural part of human existence, came to be seen in the course of the twentieth century as increasingly illegitimate.

The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.

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.