I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it.

But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

I'm not smart enough to lie

I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.

For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind.