The President is the peoples lobbyist.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

It is always a risk to speak to the press: they are likely to report what you say.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.