I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

Every American expects and deserves clean air, and then we act on that belief, then we will set an example for the rest of the world to follow.

I'm not what you call your basic intellectual.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.