North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

The most profound security threat we face today is global warming....climate change has the capacity to change the way all of us live.

The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation.

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

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

A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to publicly wage a terrorist war against America, saying, and I quote, "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets." Their mission is murder, and their history is bloody.