The economy is growing, productivity is high, trade is up, people are working. It's not as good as we'd like, but -- and to the extent that we find weakness, we'll move.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

The best way to defeat an ideology is with a better ideology. And I believe democracy is a better ideology.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

A number of people walk up to me and say, "You're much taller than I thought."

Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.