I love to watch football.I actually really love to watch almost any competition with a score at the end.

It's important to Russia to be able to attract capital and to attract technology to develop their oil fields, their oil and gas fields, many of which suffer from lack of access to the very best technologies. And it's also important, and this has been the US government's view to have diversification of supply, diversification of supply roots and, of course, diversification in terms of alternative energy.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

We [USA] need to deal with our problems here at home if we're going to be strong enough to lead abroad.

I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.

My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill - not because we're perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.