For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda.

I always tell my staff, "Better is good." I'll take better every time, because better is hard.

I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran child who's gotten here is less worthy of love, attention, opportunity than my child, but because I'm the president of the United States of America and I'm not speaking as a religious leader.

Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable.