You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept. The concept I'd argue for i… - Thomas Friedman

You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we’ll look back at the first decade of the 21st century—when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all—and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we’d crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once?

What we're gonna find out, Bob, in the next six to nine months is whether we have liberated a country or uncorked a civil war.

Only if you give the Palestinians something to lose is there a hope that they will agree to moderate their demands.… I believe that as soon as Ahmed has a seat in the bus, he will limit his demands.