When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money.

Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.