Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

I try to hold my charisma in check.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I'm not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it's a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don't believe that's the way one oughta campaign, I've never done that.

As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.