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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

Don't get me wrong: I think that everyone should put forth an effort to do better, but let's face it, some of us are just plain luckier than others.

I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.

We may be many things, we Americans, but we always get the job done.

People try to do better than other people. It's an incentive.

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.