"While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future."

"It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job."

"The idea that the rest of the world was somehow being held hostage by the Arab-Israeli conflict once had a minimal basis in reality. In the first 20 years of Israel's existence, every Arab country was in an active state of war with the Jewish state."

"Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility."

"I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that."

"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats."

"Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism."