And That Is How We Intend To

Life, As The Signs In The Liquor Stores Say, Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine. And Summer Is Too Short To Read Bad Books.

By Abrogating All Moral Standards In Their War Against Israel, Arab And Muslim Leaders Initiated A Process Of Moral Collapse That Has Ended By Soaking Their Own Societies In Blood. The Terror They Intended To Inflict Only Upon Others Has Rebounded With A Hundred Times Greater Horror Upon Their Own Lands.

Those Who Seem To Despise Half Of America Will Never Be Trusted To Govern Any Of It. Those Who Cherish Only The Country's Past Will Not Be Entrusted With Its Future.

Democracy Takes Work. That's The Thing We're Really Finding Out, That, You Know, In Many Ways, You Know, The Past Two Decades We've Taken For Granted All Of The Extraordinary Achievements Of The Post-war Generation. You Know, Building This Global Alliance Structure That Has Kept The Peace Across The North Atlantic Since World War Ii. Building All Of These Institutions, Building All This Remarkable Technology. And People Have Privatized. You Know, You Can Now, You Don't Have To Go Outdoors Much, The Whole World Comes To You.

If You Go On Tv And Say There's No Other Country In The World Where You Can Be Born Poor And Become Rich, You Get A Huge Megaphone. If You Tell The Truth, Which Is That Most Of The Studies Show Actually The United States Is Worse Than Anybody Except Britain In Upward Mobility, There Is No Audience For You.