Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.