Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

Fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say, well done. And to the C students, I say, you too can be president of the United States.

I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Cheating on self, is a paralysis of being.

The present is an eternal attempt to separate the past from the future.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as “the century of superficiality.

All foreign food is doomed to be consumed in India not so much by Indians as by a voracious Indian sensibility, which demands infinite versions of Indian food, and is unmoved by difference.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

She really was pretty, for a grown-up, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Adultery ... could be as banal as marriage.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn't stop. It all became unbalanced.

Truth is available to the ears that can hear it.