For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways - to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word "crisis." One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

Nobody is a friend of ours. Let's face it.

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

We are all in it together. This is a war. We take a few shots and it will be over. We will give them a few shots and it will be over.