And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

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.

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

People are like birds - from a distance beautiful: from close up those sharp beaks those beady little eyes.

I've written three books you could think of as memoirs.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names.

I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Maybe they’re customers. (Simone) For a doll store? Yes, I can just see them now…I’ll take the frilly pink baby doll. (Liza)

For it is with the mysteries of our religion, as with wholesome pills for the sick, which swallowed whole, have the virtue to cure; but chewed, are for the most part cast up again without effect.