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

I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.

I believe we can do much more to adapt to the structural changes in the global economy, get high-end manufacturing back here, set up clusters of economic activity where you have, among other things, continuous retraining of people well into their middle years so they never become irrelevant to the current job market.

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.

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.