America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

The promise of power wasn't enough, he thought. So now she tempts me with knowledge.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.

One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to thing in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.