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

Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.

I think that one of the greatest challenges we have today is around education. One of the things that is dividing us more and more is whether you have good prospects or you don't. Do you live a neighborhood where the schools are good? If you don't, your kids may not read until the time they're in third grade. Do you at least have access to a community college that will give you job training skills so that if you don't go for four years you will at least come out with a decent job and a decent wage. Too many people don't have that opportunity.

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

I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

We have had some bad incidents and there continue to be allegations of others which will be investigated; but overwhelmingly American forces there, putting their lives on the line every day, protecting Iraqis, helping to liberate them, that is appreciated by the Iraqi people and by the Prime Minister.