We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Spontaneous insanity is the real bliss! It's sad that we are honored for playing sane, serious, safe, miserable and controlling in this poor world.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

I will leave no memoirs.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

The unthinkable is not something we are thinking about at the moment.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.