When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
Every American should have above average income, and my Administration is going to see they get it.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
It’s important that the American people understand that President has proposed and passed this stimulus plan not as the end-all and be-all to our economic woes but as our bridge over troubled water until we get the finance system, the banking system working again.
If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.
Sometimes there is a difference in what is legal and what ought to be done.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.
It might suprise you to know I think I raised them too much, too.
If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
I’m proud to say that there is not a single Russian nuclear missile pointed at an American child.
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.
We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.
Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
If we disagree and I think I’m right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, ‘I told you so.’
Our bridge to the future must include bridges to other nations, because we remain the world’s indispensable nation to advance prosperity, peace and freedom and to keep our own children safe from the dangers of terror and weapons of mass destruction.