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

America is a remarkable place in that social attitudes change almost imperceptibly, and then you wake up the next day and they've changed. But they've been changing all the time.

Our effort to build stability through authoritarians in the Middle East for 60 years had given us neither democracy nor stability.

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

Well, there are many things, whenever you look back, that you would've done differently. We're all human. We do our best at the time. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country. We came close, but we couldn't.

Now, al Qaeda's on the run. Afghanistan is no longer a base of operations. The Afghan government is a friendly government that is trying to bring democracy to its people.

U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction.