Our new immigrants must be part of our one America. After all, they're revitalizing our cities, they're energizing our culture, they're building up our economy. We have a responsibility to make them welcome here, and they have a responsibility to enter the mainstream of American life. That means learning English and learning about our democratic system of government. There are now long waiting lines of immigrants that are trying to do just that. Therefore, our budget significantly expands our efforts to help them meet their responsibility. I hope you will support it.

The era of big government is over, but the era of big challenge is not. We need an era of big citizenship. There are many important people at this summit, but the most important title is 'citizen.' This is our republic. Let us keep it!

Since I don't have access to the White House pastry chef anymore, it's done wonders for my figure.

African Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences if we continue to pour greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.