There's no way in which you can ever win a war against terror. As long as there are conditions in many parts of the world that make people desperate: poverty, disease, ignorance, etc. I hope that we will discover soon, that we can survive, only together. We can prosper only together. And I think people are beginning to realize this, that you can't have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think you can have a stable, secure world.

I'm so, so thrilled that [Pope Francis] is there at this crucial moment in the history of our world.

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.

Stability and peace in our land will not come from the barrel of a gun, because peace without justice is an impossibility.

Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.