I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

What distinguishes Americans from many people in the world is our kind of endemic optimism.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.