But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

If you elect me president, we will have a president that believes America is the greatest country in the world and we will have a president that acts like it.

We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

We're special because dreams that are impossible anywhere else, come true here. That's not just my story. That's your story. That's our story.

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer.

We need American foreign policy that tells the world very clearly that it is bad to be our enemy and good to be our friend.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Do not be afraid to offer ideas that draw opposition. Remember, if no one is against your idea, then your idea probably doesn't do anything.

How is Hillary Clinton going to lecture me about living paycheck to paycheck? I was raised paycheck to paycheck.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

Hey, can you teach me the word for friend that you wrote on my

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?

I said that this would be a Budget based on prudence for a purpose and that guides us also in our approach to public spending.

My partners... taught me that in order to create wealth, I needed to pair up with people whose strengths compensated for my weaknesses.

Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.