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

I have no doubt that as the Iraqi security forces get better, and they are getting better and they are holding territory and they are doing these things with minimal help, that we are going to be able to bring down the levels of our forces. And I have no doubt that that's going to happen in a reasonable time frame.

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

You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.

To see an African-American elected president means that this country is really finally coming full circle from the birth defect of slavery.

Democratic openings that come about in that way - the overthrow of a totalitarian government by external powers - it makes it really hard to make those first steps toward democracy.

Out of struggle very often comes victory.