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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.