Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it.

America has no functioning democracy at this moment.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

Rich people is people who only cares for themselves, and their money but, poor people doesn't care how much money they have because they have a big heart

He rode upon a cherub and did fly: yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

Friends: people who borrow my books and set wet glasses on them.

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?

They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!

The Federal Reserve the privately owned U.S. central bank definitely caused The Great Depression by contracting the amount of currency in circulation by one third from 1929 to 1933.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

But I'll say this, if what looks like the facts of the matter are conflicting with your feelings, then you need more information before deciding