Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.

Every journey we take requires a good pair of wellingtons because there are some thorns and puddles along the way.

The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.

The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of.

Quite like old times,' the room says.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.