I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding.

In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.

All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late.

We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.

The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year.