Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that has been the enormous infusion of high quantities of money to campaigns - governors, Congress, president and the U.S. Senate.

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.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked; our futures intertwined; and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: "We can move mountains."