I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

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

If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it.

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.