Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

I think that America has to stand with democracy.

Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again.

The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past.

Justice needs to be served, what I think people of Baltimore want more than anything else is the truth. That's what people around the country expect.

The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population.

Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat.