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

American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Let me say this as clearly as I can: No matter how sharp a grievance or how deep a hurt, there is no justification for killing innocents.

I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.

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

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.

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

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

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.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

You are the most powerful cultural force in the world.

Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.

In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

When I think about the world I would like to leave to my daughter and the grandchildren I hope to have, it is a world that moves away from unequal, unstable, unsustainable interdependence to integrated communities - locally, nationally and globally - that share the characteristics of all successful communities.

One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

Poor Darrell Hammond. What's he going to do when I leave office?

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime.

Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.

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

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

My plan after office is to get up and spend that entire first day helping my wife move into her new senatorial office.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

Saddam Hussein didn't kill 3,100 people on Sept. 11. Osama bin Laden did, and as far as we know he's still alive.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.

I like the job. That's what I'll miss the most... I'm not sure anybody ever liked this as much as I've liked it.

Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

I still believe in a place called Hope.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

If you believe in making change from the bottom up, if you believe the measure of change is how many people's lives are better, you know it's hard, and some people think it's boring.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you should vote for Barack Obama.

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us.

It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

My fellow Americans, you have to decide what kind of country you want to live in. If you want a you're on your own, winner take all society you should support the Republican ticket. If you want a country of shared opportunities and shared responsibilities - a 'we're all in it together' society, you should vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

One of the main reasons America should re-elect President Obama is that he is still committed to cooperation. He appointed Republican Secretaries of Defense, the Army and Transportation. He appointed a Vice President who ran against him in 2008.