When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the government to rein in people's rights.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal. We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

Shakespeare wrote, Einstein thought, Ataturk built.