“We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”

Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong.

I can spend your money better than you can.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It’s fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.

When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable.

There is nothing more precious to a parent than a child, and nothing more important to our future than the safety of all our children.

Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

Yesterday is yesterday. If we try to recapture it, we will only lose tomorrow.

I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.

When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it. That’s what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we’re going to have weapon sweeps.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

I am opposed to abortion and to government funding of abortions. We should not spend state funds on abortions because so many people believe abortion is wrong.

So much of modern politics is focused not on honest differences of policy but on personal attacks.

A guy who makes a new chair doesn’t owe money to everyone who ever built a chair.

Great anger and violence can never build a nation.

A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.

Children have their rights denied every single day. We want to build a world where every child is in school and learning, safe from harm and able to fulfill their potential, and we know you do too. It’s time to put children back on the agenda.

It’s amazing what’s being built with a focus on opportunity, sustainability and mobility.

If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don’t have to build a wall to keep my people in.