Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
Income inequity has to be addressed.
I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.
I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn't mean I won't run.
We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.
In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.
You're looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.
Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.
The only thing I know is I ain't changing my brand. I know what I believe. I'm confident in what I know. And I'm gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don't like it, I understand.
We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don't forget it.
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.
We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.
One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
No fundamental social change occurs merely because government acts. It's because civil society, the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'
My father used to have an expression. He'd say, 'Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It's about your dignity. It's about respect. It's about your place in your community.'
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
Corruption is just another form of tyranny.
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
The Chinese have figured out that they have a giant environmental problem. Folks in Beijing, some days, literally can't breathe. Over a million Chinese die prematurely every year because of air pollution.
Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity; already-tight national budgets, crowding out important national investments. It wastes the talent of entire generations. It scares away investments and jobs.
