I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

It seems so simple now, but it took me a long time to figure out that happiness is experienced when we finally give ourselves permission to let go of the things that make us sad.

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it.

I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.

Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

Remember, half the people you know are below average.

Music is love in search of a voice.

I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent