has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

You can't teach what you don't know. And you can't lead where you don't go.

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly.

When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.

The solution [to a crisis pregnancy] is not to kill the innocent baby but to deal with the mother's values and her attitudes toward life.