When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

First, I worry about climate change. It's the only thing that I believe has the power to fundamentally end the march of civilization as we know it, and make a lot of the other efforts that we're making irrelevant and impossible.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop roducing them. They will not build it if you didn't come.

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.

The problem with ideology is if you got an ideology, you already got your mind made up, you know all the answers, and that makes evidence irrelevant and argument a waste of time, so you tend to govern by assertion and attack. The problem with that is that discourages thinking and gives you bad results.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.