When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.