When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

I might not have been President if it hadn't been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.

Even if it takes changing the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got.

Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.

This is a good deal for the United States, north Korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. South Korea and our other allies will be better protected. The entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. The United States and international inspectors will carefully monitor North Korea to make sure it keeps its commitments. ...Only as it does, so will North Korea fully join the community of nations.

If you take advantage of the fact that technology abolishes distance, then you won't need to go to India. Just go to Indiana.

Noting his mother's visit to Las Vegas the weekend before she died. She got to go to heaven four days early.