I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

Something that is completely unwinnable. I mean, it becomes unwinnable if we decide to leave [Afghanistan].

Always chew on your pretzels before you swallow.

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

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

This is a very difficult assignment for the United States, to hang in there and help this young democracy survive.