Even though the numbers are down with respect to favorability ratings, at every embassy and consular office tomorrow morning that we have, people will be lined up, and they'll all say the same thing, "We want to go to America." So we're still the leader of the world that wants to be free. We are still the inspiration of the rest of the world. And we can come back.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.

Let me blow that up for you again.

Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

You have to create circumstances where your first-tier leader knows what you are trying to accomplish, because he is the one who's going to get it done.