"There's no doubt that I'm a better..." - Quote by Barack Obama

“I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known.”

“When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.”

“Our goal is to have a country that's not divided by race. And my impression, as I travel around the country, is that that's the kind of country that most people want, as well, and that we all have prejudice, we all have certain suspicions or stereotypes about people who are different from us, whether it's religious or racial or ethnic, but what I think I found in the American people, I think there's a core decency there, where if they take the time, if they get the time to know individuals, then they want to judge those individuals by their character.”

“Those who imagine that a politician would make a better figurehead than a hereditary monarch might perhaps make the acquaintance of more politicians.”

“We were cowards when we sacked him.”

“As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.”

“This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.”

“A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort”

“One who fears failure limits his activities.”