Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.

History is everything that has ever happened.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.