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

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.

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

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.

Pride is nothing more than false courage without long term solutions.

We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don’t even know what that means

Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Before you go, would you sign that case of balls for me?

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.