We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

The Secretary of Labor is in charge of finding you a job, the Secretary of the Treasury is in charge of taking half the money you make away from you, and the Attorney General is in charge of suing you for the other half.

A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

No nation in the world has had greater fortune than mine in sharing a continent with the people and the nation of Canada.