Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Americans are hungry for change both at home and in our relations with the rest of the world.

We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the US has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.

We have some straight journalism, but then we have opinion and perspective. And I think a lot of people, especially young people, don't know how to tell the difference, and aren't motivated to tell the difference.

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

I don't worry about how folks want to characterize me.