When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.

Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.