If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about what they care about is the picture.

I can't imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

I think that we had a different view of what the 21st century could be like, with much more of a sense, from our perspective, of trying to have an interdependent world: looking at solving regional conflicts, having strength in alliances, operating within some kind of a sense that we were part of the international community and not outside of it.