What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.