Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

I have no patience with people who go around blowing up innocent people.

If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

[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.

We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.