Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.
Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.
If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn't be hunting. If you can't get the deer in 3 shots, you shouldn't be hunting. You are an embarrassment.
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.'
The effects of climate change are real and must be acted on.
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 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.
Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.
The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.
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.
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.
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.'
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.
Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.
Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.
My dad used to have an expression - 'It is the lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what they are about to do, and thinks it still matters.'
In my heart, I'm confident I could make a good president.
I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.
Other than being crazy enough to press a button, there is nothing that Putin can do militarily to fundamentally alter American interests.
