I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

I think I'm the only president other than John Kennedy who had both parents alive during the presidency.

Either well succeed, or we wont succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence.

I'm telling America we need to not discriminate against faith-based programs. We need to welcome them so our society is more wholesome, more welcoming, and more hopeful for every single citizen.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

I'm mindful in a free society that people can worship if they want to or not. You're equally an American if you choose to worship an almighty and if you choose not to.