I want you to understand clearly, I am not a journalist - be very clear on that. I am an opinion maker.

Just do this one thing: promise yourself you'll never deal underhanded to anybody. You'll be honest in all of your business dealings. That is hard. Conquer that one. Demand it of yourself. Demand a higher standard for yourself and your children and do it.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

We need to start listening to each other and getting out of our own little labeled bubbles.

If the average citizen thinks God has nothing to do with government, who then creates our rights and what makes them inalienable?