I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

I take full responsability...for what we did. It was the right thing to do.

Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.