In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

It takes a village to raise a child.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Every child needs a champion.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

You can't keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors. You know, eventually those snakes are going to turn on whoever has them in the backyard.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone.

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.

Officialdom is hostile to inquiring outsiders.

I have to travel a lot, but relaxation to me is when I am at home.

There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics.

It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the years.

I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.