Most of the work that's done in the world gets done by people who weren't feeling all that well at the time that they did it.

I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past.

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life.

I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions.

It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.