I sincerely believe that everything - everything - is grace, and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. I'm a very optimistic person.

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.

Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.

I am not the president; instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.

We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.