When I was a younger man and had a life, I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.