The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

The struggle for your own character is the struggle for the nation's character.

Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our Nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time. Well, my fellow Americans, this is our time. Let us embrace it.

Poverty, discrimination, and ignorance restrict growth.