There are always going to be people who want to be president, and some days I’d like to give it to them.
We live to prove that cooperation works better than conflict.
We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.
The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world’s wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.
Elvis Presley was the first and the best. He is my favorite of all time.
When you’re president, the Democrats got to feel good when they walk in the door if you’re a Republican; if you’re a Democrat, the Republican has to feel like you’re listening. And you should be listening.
I would never approach a small-breasted woman.
My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.
Let’s adopt some short-term strategies to get growth going and then let’s have a long-term debt reduction package. That’s what I think we should do and I think it will work.
I love the HRC. The initials are great.
I think the idea of moving to a cleaner energy future and doing more energy efficiency makes smart sense.
Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it’s important to remember how tied we are.
If you are focusing your anger at government, you are focusing your anger at all of us. Government is just a personification of this country.
When we put aside partisanship, embrace the best ideas regardless of where they come from and work for principled compromise, we can move America not left or right, but forward.
I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Sure enough at Oxford, I was another Yank half a step behind.
America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.
The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation – and the ultimate source of all its wealth – is its people.