If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

Somehow we all end up paying for what we do.

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 think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.