No one has earned the right to do less than their best.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

If you and I got on an airplane, you're going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I'm going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.