Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again.

I was not elected to produce a pile of vetoes.

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.

When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.

There seems to be no mainframe explanation for the PC world in which we're living.

You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.