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

You can put wings on a pig, but you don’t make it an eagle.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

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

I misled people, including even my wife.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

Any president that lies to the American people should have to resign.

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.

You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

We must rebuild trust in the system so that the younger generation can feel reassured.

This is our home. Let’s build it up, let’s be happy where we come from.

You can’t build a revolution with no education.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

Instead of building walls, we can help build bridges.

We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views.