Without a high pain threshold, you can’t be a successful President.
The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.
The risk is that as we come out of this recession, we’ll have so much debt to finance, we’ll either have to have inflation or very high interest rates to continue to borrow the money, or both. That’s a risk.
In our efforts to battle terrorism and cyber attacks and biological weapons, all of us must be extremely aggressive. We must protect our people from danger and keep America safe and free.
I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That’s the key.
When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.
When people think, Democrats win.
You don’t have to be an elected official to be a public servant.
We are a people of faith. We have been so secure in that faith that we have enshrined in our Constitution protection for people who profess no faith. And good for us for doing so. That is what the First Amendment is all about.
To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It’s the central reality of our time.
I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.
It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.
The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.
It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
Golf is like life in a lot of ways – All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.
Americans – not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George – we’ve always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.
We know that when we protect our oceans we’re protecting our future.