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

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.

We will reduce the White House staff by 25 percent

Throughout the Middle East, there is a great yearning for the quiet miracle of a normal life.

Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn't mean we need to try to have freedom from religion

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