Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

I know my serve stinks, but I was a pretty good tennis player.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Service is never a simple act; it's about sacrifice for others and about accomplishment for ourselves, about reaching out, one person to another, about all our choices gathered together as a country to reach across all our divides.

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

It's not whether people like you but whether they share the bright dreams...and understand the heartbeat of the country.