I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be

I play a lot chamber music.As for something that's hard for me to play, before I leave this Earth I'm hoping to play Brahms' Second Piano Concerto.

Defeating human trafficking is a great moral calling of our time...

I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see Americans across racial and economic and socioeconomic lines working together. And you maybe get a little bit less cynical than when you sit in the seat of kind of the epicenter of it all.