I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage.

I think it's very important for people who are serving (in office) to make sure there's a separation of church and state.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

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.

I'm the only president who really put it out in the State of the Union and was very specific about how I felt we ought to do it.