Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

No sight better expresses the politics of aid, the dynamics of the West and the developing countries, than the image of children, happy or in need.

We measure morality by what happens. Not what is intended.