Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you.

No matter how significant or life-changing your greatest hit or miss might be, neither even begins to define who you are. Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. To cite calculus, we are the area under the curve.

Nobody has ever said in the United States government that we are going to war next month. No decision has been made by the president because, as he said to the United Nations, he wants the United Nations to live up to its responsibilities and he wants Saddam Hussein to cooperate.