I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

I had a chance to lay it all out on the table, and I didn't. But that's the problem with shame. Shame doesn't like company. Shame's not something that likes to be shared.

Both of my parents have great senses of humor.

Training distinguishes an army from an armed mob.

The great thing about fact-based decisions is that they overrule the hierarchy.

I turned down the lead role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, because that idiot Oliver Stone didn't think the character should play the alto sax.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Songs are so all-encompassing; they're the joys and sorrows and pacing of life.

Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.