When you see a threat, you just can't hope for the best in this day and age, where terrorists are capable of inflicting damage on the homeland.

This is a decent and honorable country - and resilient, too. We've been through a lot together. We've met challenges and faced dangers, and we know that more lie ahead. Yet we can go forward with confidence - because the State of our Union is strong, our cause in the world is right, and tonight that cause goes on. God bless.

I hope I'm as graceful and gracious as [my parents] are. It's hard for me to project how I'm gonna be if I make it to 86.

We shouldn't fear a world that is more interacted.

In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.