There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

I had a dream about you last night... and found out that friends are a label we love to use, but usually it's just a nice word for "acquaintance.

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human

Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.

Everyone knows that not all change is good or even necessary. But in a world that is constantly changing, it is to our advantage to learn how to adapt and enjoy something better.

Do it, and I’ll rip your heart out and feed it to your friend. (Julian)

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.