All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

We would like to see new leaders come forward who would be accountable and responsible, who would succeed in ending the terror and the violence. And it is up to the Palestinian people to judge who those new leaders should be.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

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.

The most effective means of ensuring the government's accountability to the people is an aggressive, free, challenging, untrusting press.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.