The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.

Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality.

And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.