Fortunately, I started very young, so I read music very well. And my favorite composers to play are Brahms and Mozart.

What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow, but not what you did yesterday.

Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of power that favors freedom and that will therefore deepen and extend the peace. And I use the word power broadly, because even more important than military and indeed economic power is the power of ideas, the power of compassion, and the power of hope.

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

NATO is built on security, but it's also built on values.

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.

It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.