Leadership

We do not want to go back to the terrible conditions that paralyzed our Government and paralyzed our own people's potential in 1992 when I took office.

We also want to thank Michael Cardozo, the executive director of the Trust, the cochairs, Father Theodore Hesburgh and Nicholas Katzenbach, and the other trustees.

You must make your desire for peace and a common future clear to the leaders of each group.

You can always get better and that you can organize not only to do the right things but to do the right things right in a way that elevates the people who work for the enterprise.

I want to thank Earnie Deavenport, too.

The United States has led the way in transforming our alliance.

I have greatly valued his service.

Her indomitable spirit and extraordinary efforts to improve the lives of her fellow citizens have helped to illuminate our common path to a better America.

We need to be able to be a model to the world that will stand as a stern rebuke to that kind of conduct so that we can spread it around.

What we wanted to do was to be tough and smart.

The American dream for everybody willing to work for it; America leading the world for peace and freedom and security and prosperity; America coming together as one America—that's what I want.

I promise you, the easiest work has already been done.

If you've got that kind of heat and electricity, you ought to be Governor.

I'm not ashamed of the fact that I did the best I could within the present system.

For me, there has been no job, even the Presidency, that is more important.

People look to you to figure out what they're going to wear in the morning and whether something really bad is going to happen.

I'll miss a lot of things about Shali, but perhaps most of all I'll miss the integrity he always displayed in being my closest military adviser.

General Shali is a great American with a great American story.