Just as war is freedom's cost, disagreement is freedom's privilege.

No we can't cast ourselves as liberals.

If we have the right preventive and primary care, if we start charging for comprehensive care in the chronic cases, 10 percent of the cases take up two-thirds of the medical expenses, and if we do more on problems like childhood obesity, that we can, to use the parlance that's popular in Washington, bend the cost curve and eventually reconcile this so our costs will be closer to our competitors and so we can cover everybody.

You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this.

We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.