You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas.

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.