It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to receive the Nobel Prize. All those are important, of course. But maybe it's just that I'm 71 years old now. It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends. I would tell them that. Don't forget that. In your brilliance, don't turn your back on your friends. Don't think you're entitled to something, you're smarter than the next guy.

Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family, to make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.

I don't worry about superpower confrontation. You know, I lived through the Cold War days, and where everybody was worried about a Soviet Union armed to the teeth. I think we're going to get along fine with Russia, and I don't see them as internationally ambitious.

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.