I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

Washington is a town where there's all kinds of allegations. You've heard much of the allegations. And if people have got solid information, please come forward with it. And that would be people inside the information who are the so-called anonymous sources, or people outside the information—outside the administration.

I was raised in the West. The West of texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.

Democracies replace resentment with hope, respect the rights of their citizens and their neighbors, and join the fight against terror.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.