The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.

Nothing big ever came from being small.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.

Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.