You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.

I refuse to be part of a generation that celebrates the death of communism abroad with the loss of the American dream at home.

The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of . . . older men who prey on underage women. . . . There are consequences to decisions and . . . one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable.

We will lower the tax burden on middle class Americans by asking the very wealthy to pay their fair share. Middle class taxpayers will have a choice between a children's tax credit or a significant reduction in their income tax rate.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.

North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I think they watch the European cable channels. I think they, their decision makers keep up more than we know. And I think they want us to think they're a little crazy.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.