On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

Any poll is a picture of an unfinished horse race except the Election Day polls.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.