I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.

I'd like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace.

When your economy is kind of ooching along, it's important to let people have more of their own money.

I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.

Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.

That's important when you are running an organization so that the people who work with you know what you believe in and know those beliefs won't change.