I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

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.

Your heart knows there is a greater version of your life available to you.

Every new friend is a new journey through a brand new road toward a brand new mysterious heart.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

I didn't tell him that what I was most scared of, most haunted by, was something I didn't understand and could never run away from. It was myself.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

Luckily, I've never been offered a directing job that was lucrative. I've never heard, "Here's $800,000 to remake Sisters."

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

I'll just say this: The last problem Paris Hilton has is being in a John McCain ad.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.