Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims of Iraq who now seek to live democratically is not a mistake. In the long, long history of the Middle East, this breakthrough may one day be ranked as a dramatic turning point in regional history.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

It is almost inconceivable that citizens of that time were willing to support so bloody a war, by putting so high a price upon Union and Liberty.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.