Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.

Education is transformational. It changes lives. That is why people work so hard to become educated and why education has always been the key to the American Dream, the force that erases arbitrary divisions of race and class and culture and unlocks every person's God-given potential.

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.

There is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.

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.

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

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.