We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much.

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.

Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'

The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

In my judgment, a great mistake has been made by well meaning and zealous men, through treating error and infidelity with altogether too much respect.

While I am impulsive in many areas of my life, marriage is not one of them.

The photograph... is not a picture of something, but is an object about something.

I always feel like there’s no fighter that I can’t figure out.

..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.

People look at you and me to see what they are supposed to be. And, if we don't disappoint them, maybe, just maybe, they won't disappoint us.