My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely….

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains..

There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd..

How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to su….

Become a teacher. Your country needs you..

I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And….

We reject the use of national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime..

Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite work….

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.

People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the….

Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those g….

This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. Th….

I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years..

This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economi….

It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't ab….

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you..

To the extent that we've got a fiscal crisis right now, part of it is prompted by a bullheaded insistence on the part of the president, for example, ….

I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man..

America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a ….

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be ….

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology.