We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

The fundamental problem you have anywhere is when people think their lives and the lives of their children don't matter, they they are somehow disposable, just like a paper napkin after a lunch at a restaurant or something, if we want our freedom to be in deed as well as word in America, we have to make people feel that everybody matters again.

I don't think I would have become President if it were not for my school music program.

From Bill Clinton speech- People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.