The President Has An Obligation To Serve

But Perhaps The Most Important Difference Between Conservatives And Liberals Can Be Found In The Area Of National Security. Conservatives Saw The Savagery Of 9/11 And The Attacks And Prepared For War; Liberals Saw The Savagery Of The 9/11 Attacks And Wanted To Prepare Indictments And Offer Therapy And Understanding For Our Attackers. In The Wake Of 9/11, Conservatives Believed It Was Time To Unleash The Might And Power Of The United States Military Against The Taliban.

There Has To Be A Consequence To Failure. Schools In The Inner Cities Cannot Be Told, 'oh, We Want You To Teach Every Child To Learn How To Read And, Incidentally, If You Fail To Do That There's No Consequence,' .. There Has To Be A Consequence To Failure, And The Title I Money Needs To Follow The Child.

It's Not Comfortable For Me To Write About My Family. I'm Not Comfortable Writing About Me.

If You Make A Mistake, Clean It Up Quicker Rather Than Later.

We're An Empire Now, And When We Act, We Create Our Own Reality. And While You're Studying That Reality - Judiciously, As You Will - We'll Act Again, Creating Other New Realities, Which You Can Study Too, And That's How Things Will Sort Out. We're History's Actors... And You, All Of You, Will Be Left To Just Study What We Do.