I am not a party candidate, and if elected cannot be President of a party, but the President of the whole people.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I have no private purpose to accomplish, no party objectives to build up, no enemies to punish-nothing to serve but my country.

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!

My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends.

In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.

Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

Be authentic, not a copycat.

Another day, another dollar, another war, another tower Went up where the homeless had their home.

I didn't think that it's something that would happen. I didn't think I would be in the position, emotionally or financially, to be able to do that. But I've been lucky [to have big family].

The booing and the drama help make the Olympics interesting, but at what cost? When will people finally get tired of it and start watching the X-Games or competitive tire rolling instead?

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.

What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy.

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.