You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president

When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

If you're not gonna pull the trigger, don't point the gun.

I understand personally, ... that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.