Actually, there is no more important task for a leader than to pick people. To make sure you have the very best people working for you.

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

Diplomacy never stops, and, with or without an election, it never stops.

Another rule I have is: Don't let your ego get tied up in a policy dispute. Otherwise, if things don't go your way, you can end up breaking a relationship with somebody with whom you can't afford to break.

We hope that more assistance will be available to the nations of the region, to include Egypt, on the three pillars that I discussed today: civic society development, education and economic development.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.