American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse.

I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God.

My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX.

The arts are what makes life worth living. You've got food, you've got shelter, yeah. But the things that make you laugh, make you cry, make you connect - make you love are communicated through the arts. They aren't extras.