A promise made should be a promise kept.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

You make more money selling advice than following it. It's one of the things we count on in the magazine business -- along with the short memory of our readers.

What you do as president has consequences.

Obviously, things can get derailed, particularly if, which looks more and more likely, you get a blow-up between Israel and Iran. I think that's a very real probability now. But barring some real blow-up, the U.S. economy will grow, after a slow first quarter, about 3, 3.5 percent this year, far better than it was in 2011.

Your brand is the single most important investment you can make in your business

Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.