While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties.

I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody.

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.