The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.

I can spend your money better than you can.

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

The era of big government is over.

Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.