I have always said I would not have been President had it not been for my experience in North Dakota.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Hey Nana, do you remember the first time we met? I beleive in things like fate. So I think it was fate.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

Conversation is good - you might not agree with everyone, but at least it gives you a chance to contemplate someone else's ideas.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.

To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.