"Here's a proposal, offered only partly in jest: no resident of the United States, whether born here or abroad, should get to be a citizen until age 18, at which time each such resident has to take a test."

"Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room."

"My grandfather was a general in the Nationalist Chinese Air Force during World War II, and I grew up hearing the pilot stories and seeing pictures of him in uniform."

"In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law."

"Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it."

"There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds."

"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example."

"I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her."