You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.
All of us have to do a better job of teaching young people not to let themselves be defined by the words other people use against them.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we’d have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.
If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it’s the fastest growing organism in human history for communications.
It’s heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we’re gone.
I don’t believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.
You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.
All of us in our administration worked hard to support families in raising their children and succeeding at work.
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we’ve done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.
I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.
I want American Dream growth – lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?
In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what’s going on in the world.
Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.
If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.