I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

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.

Life ends with a snap of small bones, a head cracked from its stem, and a spirit unmoored...

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Sometimes it's not about speed about power, it's about up here man [points to his head]. All these guys are not with me mentally.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

If you got it, flaunt it may be decent advice for prostitutes, but no one else.

You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!

Marriage is an exclusive union between one man and one woman, publicly acknowledged, permanently sealed, and physically consummated.

There is a certain power when old and young come together - we can do more together than we can on our own.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.