No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.

We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

Let's create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don't fight because of our differences.

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.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.