I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

National security looks different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible,

There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.