05/18/2007
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"But they had to be so careful. I mean, you had Barack Obama doing a robocall at the last minute. Joe Biden went in, in October, I believe, and you had John Lewis and Cory Booker down there, but they w..."
"What Obama reminded us was between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War. The number of democracies in the world declined significantly."
"You have to tend to this garden of democracy, otherwise things can fall apart fairly quickly."
"We're at our best not when we're trying to put people down, but when we're trying to lift everybody up."