America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.