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

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

I will tell you this: I will not raise taxes on the middle-class to pay for these programs.

I'm very proud that the first bill I had the opportunity to sign into law as President was the Family and Medical Leave Act No parent should ever have to choose between work and family; between earning a decent wage and caring for a child.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

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.