I believe in having a private life.

The political face of Europe is one that has said very clearly that it wants cooperation and friendship with the United States.

America's still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.

I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.