You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I think the most moving part of my trip [to Africa] so far was seeing 92-year-old Nelson Mandela, and just thinking about his life. This man has lived through a struggle that few nations have known.

It should be fun introducing kids to fruits and vegetables. If you start young, it will be something that they'll attach to really quickly.

We don't need new discoveries or new inventions to reverse this trend. We have the tools at our disposal to reverse it. All we need is the motivation, the opportunity and the willpower to do what needs to be done. ...With this report, we have a very solid road map that we need to make these goals real, to solve this problem within a generation.

Hope is necessary. It's a necessary concept. And Barack Obama didn't just talk about hope because he thought it was just a nice slogan to get votes.