“To suggest that the global market-place of the twenty first century there will be no role for the state and the public sector is clearly nonsense.”

Source: The Faith of Leap (2011), p. 30

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 47

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century will be the American century.

Prostitution, Trafficking, and Cultural Amnesia (2006)

Source: From Optimism to Hope (2004), p. 71

And they didn't have any fancy accoutrements. So it can't possibly be stained-glass windows, hand-carved cherubs, custom silk tapestries, gold-inlaid hymnals, thousand-pipe organs, marble floors, mile-high steeples, hand-painted ceilings, mahogany pews, giant cast-iron bells, and a three-piece, thousand dollar suit. It doesn't stick any better to a young, hip, shaved-headed pastor with rimmed glasses, a goatee, and tattoos than it does to an older, stately gentleman in a robe. Nor is it spotlights and lasers, video production, satellite dishes, fog machines, shiny gauze backdrops, four-color glossy brochures, sexy billboards, loud "contemporary" music, free donuts, coffee shops, hip bookstores, break dancing or acrobatics, sermon series named after television shows, a retro-modern matching chair and table onstage, or blue jeans and Heelys. It is not being on television, being on the Internet, or being on book and magazine covers. It is real. It is genuine.
It – How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It (2008, Zondervan)

Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)

Source: The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2009), p. 18
Context: The twenty-first century has begun with an American success that on the surface looks like not only a deafeat but a deep political and moral embarrassment.

Source: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal