Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

To put it mildly, the world is a mess.

I was not at all apprehensive about ... disease ... [it] had no terrors for me. The thing I most feared in the world was hunger. That was something of which I had personal knowledge.

Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.

If there's nobody in your way, you're not going anywhere.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

We must be authors of the history of our age.