I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

It's a very good question, very direct, and I'm not going to answer it.

The problem with the French is that they have no word for entrepreneur.

We have ...drawn a line in the sand.

If I were to give advice to young people, high-achieving young people for example, I’d have to say, don’t neglect your family. Politics is important, sitting at the head table is glamorous. Traveling around the world, trying to do something for world peace was wonderful. But family and friends and faith are what really matter in life. And I know that. I see it so clearly now.

Competence is a narrow ideal. Competence makes the trains run on time but doesn't know where they're going.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice