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Irony is a great tool to deal with things. It's an intellectualization, a way to go above things, which can work.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the 'my way or the highway' approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women, moving women into the workplace; our feelings about our role in the world. All of that comes in a very direct way out of World War II.

Irony is one of my favorite aspects of life.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

I love irony.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

I don't embrace irony, but I do think it's a pre-existing condition; we manage it as best we can.