Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Why can't I just eat my waffle?

I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy.

What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house."