You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.