I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again."

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook, Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, high-speech broadband, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the builder of the F-15.

If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.

Hope and optimism aren't just attitudes, they are life strategies.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.