It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

Presidents are not permitted to have personal feelings.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago

You can't say you love your country and hate your government.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.