America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.
Middle age is when you’re faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o’clock.
My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God’s plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best.
The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.
Poverty is a career for lot’s of well paid people.
Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.
If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip.
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book.
Through the history of our nation, Americans have always extended their hands in gestures of assistance.
I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.
Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions.
Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others.
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.
The best way to get over a dog’s death is to get another soon.
A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state.
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow.
With the right to bear arms comes a great responsibility to use caution and common sense on handgun purchases.
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature.
In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it.
Since I came to the White House, I got two hearing aids, a colon operation, skin cancer, a prostate operation, and I was shot. The damn thing is, I’ve never felt better in my life.