I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue to discourage illegal immigration for it undermines control of our borders...and even more punishes hard-working people who play by the rules and who wait for their turn to come to the United States. Therefore we must enforce our laws, but we will do so with justice and fairness.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

When people are feeling insecure, they'd rather have someone who is strong and wrong rather than somebody who is weak and right.

I wanted to continue to be active on those things that I cared about when I was president where I could still have an impact.