Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.

I would rather be alone and a loud voice for action than be silent.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

We have to know who we are and know what we believe.

We all do better when we work together. Our differences do matter, but our common humanity matters more.

IF I can do it and you can do it, if I have a story and you have story.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime!

I try personally not to be nostalgic.

In parenting and teaching, let this be our aim: Not to make every idea safe for children, but every child safe for ideas.

Mostly, I'm in the very enviable position that no one dictates what I do.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Wait long enough and you reap what you sow. That hold for men. That hold for towns. That hold for a whole country.

If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary

We are the mirror as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity. We are pain and what cures pain both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours.