You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down.

Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors.

Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.