Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.

If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.

Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

I say that there is nothing deficient about our current theoretical grasp of mind-brain identities. The problem is only that they are counter-intuitive.

It is your birthright to have a life of meaning and purpose. Whether or not the people in your life have consistently celebrated your incarnation, you deserve to celebrate your existence.

What they want can never work. Their dreams can never even get close to reality. Their hopes can never, ever be realized. It isn't humanly possible for liberalism to succeed.

I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.