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

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there's plenty of people below you but no one's listening.

When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

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

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.