We are not asked to do great things. We are asked to do all things with great care.

I think I'm known as a liberal democrat and Hispanic and a practicing Catholic, but I never really went out of my way specifically to play a president or any kind of leader.

Oh you only fight the fights you can win? You fight the fights that need fighting!

I love my country enough to suffer its wrath.

Once you experience Third World poverty, you're really changed forever, if you're at all open to it, because we're all united in our common humanity. And we are so made as to feel something for people who are in pain. It's not possible to be human and to be unaffected by what you see in the third world.

I think service to others is the real key to winning our own personal freedom and the road to our own happiness, our own personal contentment and fulfillment.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.