Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children’s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.

Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.