Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.

The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it

It isn’t enough just to scream at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. We need our political system to start reflecting this anger back into, 'How do we fix it? How do we get the economy going again?'

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!