Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

It is one thing to rouse the passion of a people, and quite another to lead them.

Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

The media has become more forceful, has begun to recognize its traditional historic role and act on it, and truth is infectious.

To try to be authentic these days, to ask questions of the people in power - it's difficult. This administration has evolved new techniques to handle people like me. Their strategy, in a word, is simple: ignore them.

All of the leading terrorism experts are clear on one thing: that in terms of protecting America, we are almost never going to know a place or a time of an attack.