If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way to make me look better, to me, that analysis is amusing.

If you don't feel something strongly you're not going to achieve.

And we will win the war, and there will be costs. But the military folks understand that, and so do I, and so does the Secretary of Defense.

If you're asking me as the President, would I understand reality, I do.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.