It's amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you're no longer president.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again and I'll say to them, read my lips, no new taxes.

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.

Now that I am no longer President, I find I can no longer win every game of golf I play.

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

As president, I watched in wonder as Nelson Mandela had the remarkable capacity to forgive his jailers following 26 years of wrongful imprisonment - setting a powerful example of redemption and grace for us all.

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.