I think it is very important for us to make clear to our children that our country really is great because we're good.

One of the best investments we can make is to give our kids the ingredients they need to develop in the first five years of life.

My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

What's great about America is anybody can run for president. That is literally true.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

A lot of the people in history who I really admire lived before the hyperinformation age we're living in. Even if they were governing or solving problems in consequential periods, like the Civil War or the world wars or the Great Depression or the Cold War, they had a period of time and space to actually think, to be private and you read their biographies, and they had time to think about what was happening and how to respond. I don't think human nature has changed in the last 50-150 years, but the stresses, the demands on those of us in public life have just exploded.

In fact, [Donald's Trump] cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.