America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned - take our post-traumatic growth - and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

The example that America knows how to govern itself is one of the compelling aspects of our national security.