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

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.

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

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.

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

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

American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.