I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality.

After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic.

We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more.

We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq].

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The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy.

Now, at times this issue has tended to degenerate into an 'either-or' type of debate. Either we protect our people from terror or we protect our most cherished principles. But that is a false choice. It asks too little of us and assumes too little about America.