I misled people, including even my wife.
Ultimately, the best strategy to ensure our security and to build a durable peace is to support the advance of democracy elsewhere. Democracies don’t attack each other.
Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.
I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it’s an open door for the Republicans – prosperity centers.
It’s the economy, stupid.
The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.
You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I’ll give you family values.
In science, if the last 50 years were the age of physics, the next 50 years will be the age of biology.
Life’s real victories must be shared.
Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.
I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.
The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.
No one can change yesterday, but we can all change tomorrow.
If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren’t smart enough to ask for it.
The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.
It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.
I was also very concerned about protecting my family.
I think it’s crazy for us to play games with our children’s future. We know what’s happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
Just because we cannot do everything for everyone does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.
I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.