I began to feel like a real President.

For the first time since Harry Truman was President, the deficit will go down for 3 years in a row.

You are going in to see why you wanted to be President of the United States.

This is what you ran for President to do, ‘focus hope.'

When I took office as your President, I said our goal was to create 8 million jobs in 4 years.

I know that while you are our President our country will grow in all of its strengths.

One of my better predecessors, Harry Truman, once said that his job consisted largely of trying to talk people into doing what they ought to do without his having to ask them in the first place.

One of the greatest pleasures of being President is the authority to choose recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

This is my first year to have the honor of accepting the annual Thanksgiving turkey and granting the turkey the annual Presidential pardon.

By the grace of God and your help, last year I was elected President of this great country.

It is a very great mistake to think that [being President] is the thing that counts the most in America.

I want to thank you for the work you do and for the support that you gave to me last year when I was attempting to become President.

If, as President, I had the power to give just one thing to this country, it would be the return of an inner moral compass.

I'm proud to be back here at Pearl and proud to be back as your Commander in Chief.

The American people have been convinced by me as President and by others...that we've got to conserve energy and produce more American energy.

I have a sober and excited awareness of what the Presidency means to this country.

The office of the Presidency is a major and vital force in the life of every human being in this country and every family, perhaps in the entire world.

I'm grateful that, as President, we've kept our Nation at peace.