"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."

"When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land."

"In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us."

"I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life."

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war."

"To love truly means recognizing that a mind at peace can weather any storm."

"The present moment is the only sanctuary where peace truly resides. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil."