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Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths. Americans have ever been a relentless, questioning, hopeful people.

Torture must only be hypothetical exception, not US policy.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

We need a spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together. If we have no sense of community, the American dream will wither.

There is no example on the planet of a successful economy with broadly shared prosperity and a shrinking, weak government.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

You live in the age of interdependence. Borders don't count for much or stop much, good or bad, anymore.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

People like change in general, but not in particular.

I don't think the Republicans can damage my character

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

The country is groaning and moaning and screaming for change.

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming ... climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

There is a government within the government who controll this and i do not controll it

We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

$100,000 donors buy access to Congress and the White House. We believe it's long past time to clean up Washington.

You live in a country that makes it harder to raise children than any other country in the world. You vote for me and I'll give you family values.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.

Only the police should have handguns.

You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

The people have spoken, but it will take a while to determine exactly what they said.

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

Only a fool does not look to explain his mistakes.

Today's possibilities are not tomorrows guarantees.

Golf is like life in a lot of ways - All the biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

The future belongs to those who are creative collaborators

Just because you can't do everything, it doesn't mean you shouldn't do what you can.

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she's spent a lifetime doing it.

Simply put, unsustainable debt is helping to keep too many poor countries and poor people in poverty.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

It is time to stop personal destruction and prying into private lives

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

Our country [America] is still the strongest force for peace and freedom on earth.

Indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong

When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected. It hurts us all.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

America can no longer afford to get the Nobel Prizes while our competitors get the profits.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off: it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature - like wind or water.

I believe that people of my income group should pay more, and I explained why, but that won't necessarily lift overall wage levels.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

For four years we've been cooperating exhaustively

Along the way they're (MLB) going to lose millions of more American fans ...

If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign.

I have never had sex with that woman, Hillary Clinton.

Well, I don't have much job security.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging ... Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel.

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.

Marijuana is ten times more dangerous than twenty years ago.

I would never approach a small-breasted woman.

The era of big government is over.

You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say.

Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people.

It is now conceivable that our children's children will know the term cancer only as a constellation of stars.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

If no one consumes these products, people will stop producing them. They will not build it if you don't come.

The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?

The Republicans could mess up a two car parade

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

Terrorists are as big a threat to our future, perhaps bigger, than organized crime.

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

Taxing less and spending more.. it's fun in the short run, but it's a recipe for disaster.