I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The American Dream means being part of a society that allows you to be or do whatever you want, and to have a sense that your individual optimism and hard work will be rewarded. It exists outside of the U.S. as well as inside. People continue to come here because they want to improve their lives, they want to be able to support themselves and they want to live in freedom. A lot of people who criticize this country still send their children here to study.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

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.

NATO has been a thread throughout my life.