Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.