I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.

There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

We shouldn’t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women.

Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's how we were able to mobilize the international community, including some folks that we are not particularly close to, to abide by these sanctions. That's how these crippling sanctions came about, was because we [USA] were able to gain global consensus that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a problem for everybody.

Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.