There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.

I believe that anyone who wants to stand in a national election should receive a course of psychotherapy. Completing the course should be a qualification for office. This wouldn't change the behaviour of psychopaths, but it might prevent some people who exercise power from imposing their own deep wounds on others.

No one will remember that President Obama supported the Arab Spring if it eventually fails and the region collapses back into the political Dark Ages. If we actively engage these movements with advice, with money, and, when necessary, with military force, then we get a vote in how it all turns out.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.