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

We can't rely - or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

We are at war, and our security as a nation depends on winning that war.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

I've never really been a workaholic.

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.