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

I don't know in my long life that I ever worked with anybody that has quite the combination of policy knowledge and concern, political skills, of a personal touch with people, and a sense of innate fairness that inspires confidence.

I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

Our land of new promise will be a nation that meets its obligations, a nation that balances its budget, but never loses the balance of its values.

The power of our example is more important than the strength of our military.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.