I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches.

On immigration, there are a lot of hurdles before anything arrives at the White House.

I think I'm careful. My goal is to try to stay away as much from opinion journalism as possible.

One of the things that Africa needs, everybody seems to agree, is some measure of debt relief.

If you take the conflicts we are used to dealing with, race over the years in America, and you combine that with the desire or aspiration to political power or taking power from other people, which is what politics is all about, you end up with a lot more friction than you would normally see with just straight-ahead politics.

I spent my career trying to speak to the broadest possible audience whether it's in print or whether it's in television.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.