I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

People realize that we're very good at sending people to war, but we're not good at taking care of them. And people are coming back from war now; years ago, they would have been killed, now they're wounded; and they're coming back alive and with post-traumatic stress. So, I think Americans are sensible enough to know we've got to figure out a way to take care of them.

Each person has a literature inside them.

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the ability to make a new future with your own bare hands.

People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.

I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.