I've Chosen To Be A Commentator And

What I Think I've Learned Is That You're Never Going To Get It All Right, And You Can't Obsess About Having A Fact Wrong Or A Date Wrong Or Something Like That, As Long As You Tried As Best You Could. If You've Done The Kind Of Research That You're Sure Is Pretty Good, Then You Just Have To Have Confidence In It, So That Nothing Is Perfect In Life. I Think That Is What The Criticism Has Helped Me To Understand.

The Turn Of The Century Was The Age Of The Banker, So Much So That The Leading Bankers Of The Day Had Become Legendary Figures In The Public Imagination-vast, Overshadowing Behemoths Whose Colossal Power Seemed To Reach Everywhere.

What The American Dream Means To Me Is The Fact That - What Founded This Country - When I Think About Those Posters That Were Put Up In Europe, Which Said, "come To America And You'll Have Golden Sidewalks. The Land Will Be Yours." There Was Something So Inspirational About The Fact That These Immigrants From All Over The World Felt That Here Was A Place Of Freedom, A Place Of Opportunity.

Where's The Progress That We're Going To See In Afghanistan? You Have To Keep Public Support Both On The Economy And The War Or These Things Will Really Become Troubling.

Those Who Knew Lincoln Described Him As An Extraordinarily Funny Man. Humor Was An Essential Aspect Of His Temperament. He Laughed, He Explained, So He Did Not Weep.