The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

I have a long-term interest in the humanities.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

Nothing binds a people to their leader like a common enemy. Voters don't change governments during war.

I expect all the players, even the younger ones, to show leadership in their own way.

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.