We should, all of us, be filled with gratitude and humility for our present progress and prosperity. We should be filled with awe and joy at what lies over the horizon. And we should be filled with absolute determination to make the most of it.

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.

As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.

My major political identity has been as her spouse for the last decade and I like it that way.

I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

One of the real dilemmas we have in our country and around the world is that what works in politics is organization and conflict. That is, drawing the sharp distinctions. But in real life, what works is networks and cooperation. And we need victories in real life, so we've got to get back to networks and cooperation, not just conflict. But politics has always been about conflict, and in the coverage of politics, information dissemination tends to be organized around conflict as well.

Don't you ever orget that in the end, our future is tied to people, that it's more about ideas than a tax.