One of my hardest parts of my job is to console the family members who have lost their life.

Americans practice different faiths in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples. And many good people practice no faith at all.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

we're too great a nation to allow the evil-doers to affect our soul and our spirit.

Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale.

It is important that social, political, and religious freedoms grow in China. A society which recognizes religious freedom is a society which will recognize political freedom as well.

You know, I guess I'm like any other political figure: Everybody wants to be loved.