I think it's very hard to fight the war on terrorism if we're in retreat.

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.

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

What do you say becomes less relevant when it is compared with how do you say it.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.

A bad deed always brings a punishment.

If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.