When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

There is no excuse for not trying.

If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for.

I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, "Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus." I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria].

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives.