The United States is the best and fairest and most decent nation on the face of the earth.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

Extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different - and perhaps barren - outcome.

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn't happen 20 years ago.