Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

It is inconceivable that anyone could say we have tried to hide anything

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

It's the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.

The era of big government is over.

When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didn’t like it, and I didn’t inhale, and I never tried again.

My father left me with the feeling that I had to live for two people, and that if I did it well enough, somehow I could make up for the life he should have had. And his memory infused me, at a younger age than most, with a sense of my own mortality. The knowledge that I, too, could die young drove me both to try to drain the most out of every moment of life and to get on with the next big challenge. Even when I wasn't sure where I was going, I was always in a hurry.