We will establish a new system that makes high-quality health care available to every American in a dignified manner and at a price he can afford.

With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

Those who hate us only win if we hate them back

Government has the responsibility to provide the climate in which Americans, all Americans, have an opportunity for good jobs; and not only for good jobs, but an opportunity if they have the ability and the desire, to be owners and managers, to have a piece of the action, because if they have a piece of the action, then they believe in the system rather than fighting against it.