It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups

When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

We still go out and elect people who we think are going to govern and better our interests. So we may not have the same confidence in the people we elect, but we still go out and elect them.

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 hope that all of us who were fortunate enough to have benefited will put our time, our resources and our efforts into making sure that kids, particularly kids without means, have a way to achieve.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.