Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here.

I don't think that there's a hard-and-fast deadline. . . .What we have said all along is that this is not an open-ended process, we are not in this just to talk for talk's sake. . . . We expect prompt, concrete steps to be taken over the next couple of weeks.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life.

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.

We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help.

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