Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think.

You know, it's just one small step from legacy to lame duck.

If people can't let go to the hatred of their enemies, they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.

People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted for stocks . . . of biological and chemical weapons.