To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

I wish that after the war against Saddam Hussein we had been more effective at rebuilding Iraq quickly. I think had we done it from the provinces, in, rather than from Baghdad, out, we might have been more successful.

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.

The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Separation of powers is a problem for foreign policy.

Everywhere that I go in the world, people desperately look to American leadership in all of their world's most difficult problems. You can look at any region of the world and the United States is still the country to which those regions look for leadership.