“If you want to have a good life you have to have some constructive outlet for your feelings.”

The Constitution is a radical document, it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.

I am trying to be honest with you and it hurts me. Now.

When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

You can’t say you love your country and hate your government.

Being President is a little like being the grounds-keeper at a cemetery: there’s plenty of people below you but no one’s listening.

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

Sarah, there’s a government inside the government, and I don’t control it.

Character doesn’t matter.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

The most powerful people on earth are focus groups.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good. But what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web… Now even my cat has its own page.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

Success is a project that’s always under construction.

To know the world, one must construct it.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.