The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.

The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

have a lot of respect for the responsibility that journalists have to ask tough questions, to hold the administration accountable and to be advocates for the citizens of the United States.

We have raised significant concerns about the way that China and individuals acting on behalf of the state of China have acted in cyberspace.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

I obviously wanted to play for the Kansas City Royals. (Laughter) I also knew that was far-fetched. The truth is I don't really know what I wanted to do.

There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

The President and first lady did hold a private party at the White House over the weekend, but given the private nature of that event, I don't have a lot of details to discuss from here.

The walk-in privilege, to walk into the Oval Office and have a conversation with the president, is not something that everybody gets.

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

Let me go, let me go.

There's no such thing as addiction, there's only things that you enjoy doing more than life.

Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding.

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

There is only one kind of failure I cannot tolerate: the failure to risk failure.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

I think the coming of spring, the stars overhead, the first snowfall and so on are gifts for a child, a young poet.