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We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

American history has fallen more and more into the hands of academics.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

This nation has been drifting back in comparison with the rest of the world for the last 20 years in education.

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

The truth is that beginning in the 1970s, the heart of our Democratic party, America's strong striving middle class, began drifting away from us.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.