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.

It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.

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.

Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.

To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

We can't renew America unless more of us, I mean all of us, are willing to join churches.