Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

Every year, some 65, 000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.

Emotion is not what makes us weak. It's what makes us human, The ability to care, even if people often do not.

If you expect nothing you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.

God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

The distinction between radical Islam and moderate Muslims is important, as are the differences between Sunnis and Shiites, and between militant and mystical Islam.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

If you are somebody to anybody, you're somebody.