“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.”

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.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one’s ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

With no goals, no priorities, no life strategy of our own, we drift with the herd through an endless meadow of mediocrity, unable to break loose, to achieve even a small part of the dreams we once cherished.

Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our true potential.

You can choose to see your goal with 20/20 accuracy, and when you can see a goal that clearly, you can achieve it.