Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.