I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public.

One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

We didn't hold President Obama as accountable as we might have.

President [Barack] Obama's pick of Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education was abysmal.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

Frankly, I'd love to see a multiparty system, like we have in some of our European countries. But I'm not sure how to get there.