I tell you, my fellow Americans, that if we learned anything from the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the governments in Eastern Europe, even a totally controlled society cannot resist the winds of change that economics and technology and information flow have imposed in this world of ours. That is not an option. Our only realistic option is to embrace these changes and create the jobs of tomorrow.

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.

[My mom] had this amazing attitude in the face of everything, including when she got cancer.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

Climate change is more remote than terror but a more profound threat to the future of the children and the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren I hope all of you have.

In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago