The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Why be afraid of what people will say? Those who care about you will say, Good luck! and those who care only about themselves will never say anything worth listening to anyway.

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.

I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.

Future of his nation does not depend on what happens at the White House, but what happens at your house