You do not reform a world by ignoring it.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order, a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations. When we are successful, and we will be, we have a real chance at this new world order, an order in which a credible United Nations can use its peacekeeping role to fulfill the promise and vision of the U.N.'s founders.

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

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.