No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God.

While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.

We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.