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.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

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.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.