I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.

It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].

I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.

Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. If you are too attentive to the former, you will most certainly not do the hard work of securing the latter.

When I said I had always hoped to marry in my race, I really do mean that. That doesn't mean I absolutely wouldn't marry outside of it, but there's a culture and traditions to maintain, and I have great pride in them, and I always thought it would be wonderful to share that with somebody of my race.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.