[Americans know] the traditional values of Islam, devotion to faith and good works, to family and society, are in harmony with the best of American ideals.

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

I experimented with marijuana a time or two.

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.