Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

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.

Your rebel soul shines like a diamond pulled from dust: bright, clear and flawless.

Life often presents you with difficult choices. But who made up the rules? Why choose at all?

When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

I know from vast experience that fear talks a lot louder than courage. I need to listen to that other voice inside me, that faint one that's struggling to be heard.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil.

People often ask me how would I like to be remembered and I answer that I would simply like to be remembered.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.