[My favorite dish to cook] is fried chicken, and by the way I'm good at it, too. I make really good fried chicken.

This system, built on free markets, free trade and free peoples and American protection, that's what got us from the end of World War II to the extraordinary events of the end of the Cold War and a system that was one of prosperity and peace for a lot of people, including for the United States.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.

When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it.

...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.

I use the word power broadly. Even more important than military and economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.