Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that.

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need.

That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.

Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance.