You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.

People will vote for someone who [they perceive] is strong and wrong before they will vote for someone who appears weak but is right.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?

When you're a former president, you have much less power, but you have a lifetime of experience and contacts and if you've got the energy, you can bring influence to bear on a small but still fairly substantial number of things where you can concentrate on it because you don't have to change the subject when you wake up in the morning and there's something else in the newspaper.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time - never. These allegations are false.

Life is a journey towards truth, we have something to learn from each other, and everybody ought to have a chance to make the journey. So for us, a community is just made up of anybody who accepts the rules of the game, everybody counts, everybody has a role to play, everybody deserves a chance and we all do better when we work together

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.