I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

The only justification for ever looking down on somebody is to pick them up.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

The US must be the honest broker between the Israelis and the Palestinians. America needs to be to both of them what neither could be to the other: a trusted brokering partner. It is in their interest and our interest for America to play that role.

While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.