[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.

We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start.