When somebody underestimated me, it made me want to prove them wrong.

Multiethnic character of America is very attractive to people. They also see a place where you get ahead, not because of where you came from, but because of where you want to go.

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.

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 think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have, or what their nationality is, or where they came from. And I think that's how Americans really do relate to each other on a personal level.