Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that.

Never read Who Moved My Cheese in the workplace when you can read The Joy of Not Working.

One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law.

[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.