I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

In the end, the only way is to be better than that person who let you down... and better than the monster you used to be...

As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.

I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenwriting.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

Scientists think they can now clone an all-white zebra. Now, I'm no expert, but isn't that a horse?

On January 1, 2006, Medicare will begin to offer a prescription drug benefit, and for the first time, it will place an emphasis on preventive care and early treatment of disease.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!