Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.

It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience.

Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.

The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy.

Ironically, the single thing that has strengthened Iran over the last several years has been the war in Iraq. Iraq was Iran's mortal enemy. That was cleared away. And what we've seen over the last several years is Iran's influence grow. They have funded Hezbollah, they have funded Hamas, they have gone from zero centrifuges to 4,000 centrifuges to develop a nuclear weapon.