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.

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

The rigidity of those pledges is something I don’t like. The circumstances change and you can’t be wedded to some formula by Grover Norquist. It’s—who the hell is Grover Norquist, anyway?

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.

The thing I miss about Air Force One is they don't lose my luggage.

My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

Old guys can still do fun things.