A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I misled people, including even my wife.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

The problem with any ideology is that it gives you the answer before you examine the evidence.