Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.