I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

We cling to the comfortable rather than step out into the possible.

You have to set new goals every day.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

Those officers and men who were immediately under my observation, evinced the greatest gallantry, and I have no doubt that all others conducted themselves as became American officers and seamen.

The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.