After all, this is a guy that tried to kill my dad at one time.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

The rain that falls wherever it pleases. I want to be that rain.

Maybe the best way for you to get us to summon our better selves is for you to show us yours.

If we stopped calling it profiling and started calling it "proactive intelligence screening" or "high alert detecting", people would be saying "Well, it's about time".

Family is just accident. . . . They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family they just are.

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

All tours are filled with humiliation. My publisher once hired a private jet to fly me to a venue where 1,000 people were waiting. It almost bankrupted him.

Rhetoric can be razor sharp, and just as one needs to take some comments seriously, others should not be.

The smarter people I know declined to watch the most recent debate [with Donald Trump].

A good setter is like a waiter.

It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.