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

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

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

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

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

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