Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions.

California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American.

We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become "peculiar".

I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.