I mean, when's the last time we elected a president based on one year of service in the Senate before he started running? I mean, he will have been a senator longer by the time he's inaugurated, but essentially once you start running for president full time you don't have time to do much else.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.