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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

You ask politicians a question, and they have an answer. It's almost like the more articulate the answer, the more something feels wrong because that question takes thought.

You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

I believe that it is my right and responsibility as an American to question our government when our government is wrong.

I am telling you, as a president of the country, I do not find it a mistake to listen to you and to respond to your requests and demands. But it is shameful and I will not, nor will ever accept to hear foreign dictations, whatever the source might be or whatever the context it came in.

I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face.

People don't question American power. What people need to be convinced of is American will.

The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.