Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

The secret to living a full life with no regrets and to staying young is to figure out what you believe in and fight for it. If you lose, don't give up. If you win, raise the bar, and then rare back and do something else. And remember that, with the accumulation of years, our responsibilities to the future grow greater, not less.

When I first came to Washington in the 1960s, even at the height of the Vietnam War, until the end there in '68 there was a certain climate of cooperation. And then in the late sixties and in through the seventies, politics began getting more mean. And then from the eighties on it seemed to be institutionalized, this personal attack business. And I just hate it.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.