Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

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

My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not poor or mediocre ones.

I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

Spirituality and faith are at the core of who I am. I was born to deeply religious parents who were able to give me that rock solid foundation in the church and in my faith which really has served me so well.

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

I don't know anyone who is more admired and respected in the international community than President Karzai, for his strength, for his wisdom and for his courage to lead this country first in the defeat of the Taliban and now in rebuilding a democratic and unified Afghanistan. And I can tell you I am with foreign ministers and with heads of state all over the world. I sit in the councils of NATO. I sit with the EU. I sit with people all over the world and there is great admiration for your president and also for what the Afghan people are doing here.