Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defence against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding.

I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news.

By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else.

Weapons of war have no place on our streets.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately.