America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.

The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.

The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.