We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

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.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

A decision is the action an executive must take when he has information so incomplete that the answer does not suggest itself.

I was 35 years old and not in the best of shape. I spent many late nights playing music, drinking beer, and eating Taco Bell.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

People took some part of us and used it to discriminate against us. In our case, it was our ethnicity; it's precisely the same thing for sexual orientation.

Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.

Out of my great sorrows, I make little songs.

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.

The greatest medicine is a true friend.