I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

More terrorists and extremists have been captured or killed in Pakistan than in any place in the world.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

Iran is isolated on its nuclear program and support for terrorism.

The U.S.-China relationship, of course, has elements of both cooperation and competition.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

Your job is to facilitate and improve your capacity so that when an idea comes you can facilitate it. That's your job as a human being, in my opinion anyway.

Hope ... is not a feeling; it is something you do.

This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.