You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.

The best armor against everything around you is to be well educated, to work hard, to be twice as good as if you had to be, to do languages and culture better.

I think our dependence on foreign oil is a real problem, potential Achilles heel, and we have to do something about it.

I've speculated about what my life might have been like as a musician, but I'm afraid I came to the conclusion that I probably would've either been teaching piano or maybe gotten to play at Nordstrom's department store.

If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.