Always Chew On Your Pretzels Before You

The More You Defend In The Face Of A Critical Audience, The More You Polarize.

The Financial Crisis Should Not Become An Excuse To Raise Taxes, Which Would Only Undermine The Economic Growth Required To Regain Our Strength.

The 20th Century Ended With A Single Surviving Model Of Human Progress.

For Too Long, Many Nations, Including My Own, Tolerated, Even Excused, Oppression In The Middle East In The Name Of Stability. Oppression Became Common, But Stability Never Arrived. We Must Take A Different Approach. We Must Help The Reformers Of The Middle East As They Work For Freedom, And Strive To Build A Community Of Peaceful, Democratic Nations.

For Decades, Free Nations Tolerated Oppression In The Middle East For The Sake Of Stability. In Practice, This Approach Brought Little Stability And Much Oppression, So I Have Changed This Policy.