I do not believe we can repair the basic fabric of society until people who are willing to work have work. Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life.

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.

President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas and the direction America has to take to build the 21st-century version of the American Dream: a nation of shared opportunities, shared responsibilities, shared prosperity, a shared sense of community.

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

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.