One thing you had to learn [after the presidency] was that you no longer had the sense of responsibility that became ingrained in your system.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is unconditional love. As a child wanders and strays, finding his bearings, he needs a sense of absolute love from a parent. There's nothing wrong with tough love, as long as the love is unconditional.

Thats why we are inconveniencing air traffickers, to make sure nobody is carrying weapons on airplanes.

If there is a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. If the person has violated law, the person will be taken care of.

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.

It was a privilege to be president and it is a privilege to be a former president and I believe that I have got a chance to be a part of something that is influential - but not for my sake, but for the sake of people dying in Africa or people worried about a free society in their countries or people who wonder whether there will be a free market.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.