I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants my violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

There's nobody who's had a resume like [Hillary Clinton] that's run for president.

We must help women in every society to have their voices heard.

I have always thought of myself as a Czechoslovak Catholic.

You have to learn to interrupt because you aren't going to get called on.

The administration does not agree with those who suggest we should deploy hundreds of thousands of American troops to engage militarily in a ground war in Iraq.