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

We are about to elect the last President of the 20th century and the first President of the 21st century.

We're closer to the time when anybody can run for President, fulfilling the Constitution's requirements, and be considered on his or her own merits.

This country is better off than it was 4 years ago not because of anything any of us did alone, including the President.

I just think it's not responsible for any President just to not be engaged in it.

I think the lesson that I have learned more than any other in 3 years and a few days as President is that when this country works together, we never lose.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in order to improve the functioning of the National Partnership Council, it is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 12871 is amended as follows.

I ran for President in large measure to renew our democracy, to give ordinary Americans a greater stake in our Government.

I am not going to do something that I think will prevent us from doing what I ran for President to do.

Florida is creating jobs at 3 times the rate it was when I became President.

I have probably consumed more raisins than any President who ever held this office.

The Brady law, in that sense, is one of the things that I'm proudest of that has happened since I have been President.

whoever is the President, whoever is in charge of the National Government, even though there won't be always easy answers or perfect answers to these problems, we have to be sensitive to the fact that Alaska is different from Rhode Island.

I sought the Presidency because I was concerned about the direction of our Nation.

I sought the Presidency because I was inspired by what you just saw on that screen when I was a young man, and I believed we could do better.

I think the most moving personal encounter I've had actually in the White House since I have been President occurred on an early Sunday morning when I came in from my run.

I hope to live to see both of them become President of the United States.

One of the reasons that I ran for President is I couldn't imagine how... every problem in Washington became a subject of partisan dispute.