If you go out and make some things happen, you will fill the world with hope.

I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

I've been very good for gun manufacturers.

[When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?