My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists.

The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.

We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon.

If we got there and we looked up and we said, "You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago," then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have.

Iran has to live up to its international obligations. . . . The president has said that our patience is not unlimited.

You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.