Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

What we don't need is more spending, and what we don't need are taxes, and what we do need is a lot less of both.

America is too great for small dreams.

Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?"

America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure.

I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.