Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.

President Kennedy didn't negotiate out of the Cuban missile crisis simply because he and Khrushchev got along well. Khrushchev didn't have the cards.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Have a vision. Be demanding.