I aim to be a competitive nation.

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.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life:~people applaud you incessantly.~love you more than their parents.~give you a daily bread.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Dream, diversify-and never miss an angle.