"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

"President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends: This is a day of national consecration. And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels. This is preeminently the ...

"Recognition of that falsity of material wealth as the standard of success goes hand in hand with the abandonment of the false belief that public office and high political position are to be valued only by the standards of pride of place and personal profit; and there must be an end to a conduct in banking and in bu...

"In the field of world policy, I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor: the neighbor who resolutely respects himself and, because he does so, respects the rights of others; the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in and with a world of neighbors. ...

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with th...

"My friends: I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking -- to talk with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking, but more particularly with the overwhelming majority of you who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of checks. I want to te...

"The new law allows the twelve Federal Reserve Banks to issue additional currency on good assets and thus the banks that reopen will be able to meet every legitimate call. The new currency is being sent out by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing in large volume to every part of the country. It is sound currency bec...

"More liberal provision has been made for banks to borrow on these assets at the Reserve Banks and more liberal provision has also been made for issuing currency on the security of these good assets. This currency is not fiat currency. It is issued only on adequate security, and every good bank has an abundance of s...

"I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work -- a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be ...

"Thank you very much Professor Kombay for that generous introduction. And let me say, that I never expected to hear such kind words from Dr. Falwell. So in return, I have an invitation of my own. On January 20th, 1985, I hope Dr. Falwell will say a prayer at the inauguration of the next Democratic President of the U...

"Ronald Reagan said to 15 thousand evangelicals at the Roundtable in Dallas: 'I know that you can't endorse me. I want you to know I endorse you and what you are doing.' To many Americans, that pledge was a sign and a symbol of a dangerous breakdown in the separation of church and state. Yet this principle, as vital...

"The failure of Prohibition proves the futility of such an attempt when a majority or even a substantial minority happens to disagree. Some questions may be inherently individual ones, or people may be sharply divided about whether they are. In such cases, like Prohibition and abortion, the proper role of religion i...

"Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name -- which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right. Similarly, people are and should be perplexed when the religious lobbying group C...

"But we should not be forced to discuss phantom issues or false charges. They only deflect us form the urgent task of deciding how best to prevent a planet divided from becoming a planet destroyed. And it does not advance the debate to contend that the arms race is more divine punishment than human problem, or that ...

"So I am doubly grateful for your courtesy here this evening. That was not Harvard's finest hour, but I am happy to say that the loudest applause from the Harvard audience came in defense of Dr. Falwell's right to speak. In short, I hope for an America where neither 'fundamentalist' nor 'humanist' will be a dirty wo...

"Well first I want to claify that I'm not fake Steve Jobs."

"This is a day of national consecration. And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our people impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly...

"Prosperity already tests the persistence of our progressive purpose. So let us ask again: Have we reached the goal of our vision of that fourth day of March 1933? Have we found our happy valley? I see a great nation, upon a great continent, blessed with a great wealth of natural resources. Its hundred and thirty ...

"I speak to you for the first time as Prime Minister in a solemn hour for the life of our country, of our empire, of our allies, and, above all, of the cause of Freedom. A tremendous battle is raging in France and Flanders. The Germans, by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broke...

"And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck...

"Well, I didn't hear Obama's speech so I can't really comment on it, but, you know, I grew up in a a little village called Archery, Georgia. We didn't have any white neighbors. All my neighbors were African American and the most prominent and richest man in the area was a black African Methodist Episcopal bishop. ...

"One of the things that interests me most is the foreign policy. You know, who will help to repair the horrible damage that's been done to our nations reputation around the world and that's a major issue for me. What I hope is to see the next president within the first ten minutes of the new term to correct these ...

"I've made it very clear that what I want is for families to make decisions about their healthcare, not government and that's the fundamental difference between myself and Senator Obama and Senator Clinton. They want the government to make the decisions, I want the families to make the decisions. I want Nicholas's...

"If you're really tough you're not always looking to try to start a fight. If you're really tough sometimes you just walk away. If you're really tough sometimes, you know, you just save it for when you really need it. And so interested in? I'm not, I'm not interested in fighting people just for the sake of scorin...

"The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave."

"Remember we fought for the single mom with the young daughter, juggling work and school, who told me I'm doing it all to better myself for her."

"We fought for the women who grabbed my hand and asked me what are you going to do to make sure I have healthcare and began to cry, because even though she works three jobs she can't afford insurance."

"I've had every oppurtunity and blessing in my own life and I want the same for all Americans, and until that day comes you'll always find me on the front lines of democracy, fighting for the people."

"I've been fighting for you my whole adult life and I will keep standing for you and working for you every single day."

"We'll be forgoing more than 80 million dollars in public funds during the final months of this election."

"John McCain's campaign and the Republic National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs."

"Let's build the first general election campaign that's truly funded by the American people."

"I am fired up. New Hampshire, I'm all fired up!"

"There's been a little bit of fuss about me lately."

"Obviously it's flattering to get a lot of attention; although, I must say it's baffling, particularly to my wife."

"Where'd you get this funny name, Barack Obama?"

"For most of this campaign we were far behind. We always knew our climb would be steep, but in record numbers you came out and you spoke up for change, and with your voices and your votes you made it clear that at this moment, in this election, there is something happening in America."

"Whether we are rich or poor, black or white, Latino or Asian, whether we hail from Iowa or New Hampshire, Nevada or South Carolina, we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction!"

"We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope, but in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."

"Father Pfleger, who is somebody who I have known, who I consider a friend, who has done tremendous work in Chicago."

"We had a fundamental failure though, in government regulation."

"We don't know who won the game, there are flags on the field."

"If 20 weeks ago was the darkest day for Virginia Tech the time since then, probably this football programs finest hour."

"I would also like to thank you as a team for supporting us throughout the year. It's been a great honor to be out here. There's only one place I'd rather be, French Lick."

"It is not for the faint of heart."

"The most important thing is for us to feel. And you know I would hate to just do it."

"And I want to do it my way. I sound like Frank Sinatra."

"Every album that has every come out, we come up with a batch of songs and we really pick best."

"It's difficult to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don't know how to help. And so we look away."

"I couldn't take my eyes off of you and your friends were very jealous. Even if they say they weren't, they were envious of the fact that I approached you."

"There's nothing wrong with me. Matter of fact I'm one of the few men in the city that has nothing wrong with him."

"From Memorial Day to Labor Day of this year."

"Because they are such ridiculously heavy, Frankenstein chickens, their legs can't even hold them up."

"KFC, that's filthy, and that's foul."

"Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit, ribbit."

"Mayor Giuliani believes in federal funding for abortion, he believes in sanctuary cities, he's for gun control."

"Governor Romney you've been spending the last year trying to fool people about your record. I don't want you to start fooling them about mine."

"I Gerald R. Ford have granted a full free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon."

Sam Donaldson: "Mr. President, in talking about the continuing recession tonight, you have blamed mistakes in the past and you have blamed the Congress. Does any of the blame belong to you?" Ronald Reagan: "Yes because for many years I was a Democrat."

"The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base."

Daughter: "Dad, you need to promise me you're not gonna get alcohol tonight." Dave: "What?" Daughter: "You need to promise me you're not going to get alcohol tonight." Dave: "What?" Daughter: "Okay?" Dave: "Huh?" Daughter: "Cause if you get alcohol tonight, you're fired from your show tomorrow."

"Oh you farted!"

"... and this interchange advances again and Fernando Torres is almost the recepient... He is the recepient! Torres has the midas touch ... and it's a Spanish treasure."

"You did Fox's bidding on this show."

"Yes, I failed once. And I sure paid for it. And I'm sorry."

"If you're interested in freedom, you need some judo, you need some karate, you need all the things that will help you fight for freedom."\

"It is nationalism that's bringing freedom to oppressed people, all over the world."

"I'm a field negro!"

"Well market incentives make that happen. In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero."

"Well, you know, Bill built the first software company in the industry, and I think he built the first software company before anybody really in our industry knew what a software company was."

"Fuck you."

"Well now, what would you think? Why don't you quote yourself on that one? And figure that one out. I mean, what would be your answer to that? Let your readers know how smart you are."

"Anybody else who's going to get addicted to drugs are obviously going to fuck up their lives eventually."

"I don't enjoy people fucking with my family."

"I couldn't see still fighting this stupid fight."

"That'd be fucking awesome."

"It's nothing like what it was like the first couple of years."

"I find myself falling asleep at times when I'm fed up with people or bored."

"It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity."

"And go into the other bedroom and fuck and drink."

"The most important thing is for us to feel. And you know I would hate to just do it."

"And I want to do it my way. I sound like Frank Sinatra."

"Every album that has every come out, we come up with a batch of songs and we really pick best."

"The people who still say that global warming isn't real are actually in the same boat with the flat earth society. They get together and party on Saturday nights with the folks that believe the moon landing was in a movie lot in Arizona."

"Americans take the financial hit coming and going. As taxpayers, we foot the bill for the enormous subsides paid to corn producers. And as consumers, we pay extra at the pump because of government barriers to cheaper products from abroad."

"I'd be glad to go over weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein and the reasons why we went into the conflict and the failed intelligence, which needs to be fixed and fixed badly. And in my view has not been completely fixed."

"If our great goal is to move American transportation toward lower carbon emissions then it should start with the federal fleet."

"I see fearful signs. And I don't understand how it's not compromising our environmental standards to propose a crash program to build more nuclear power plants when the industry has not complied with the federal law that requires there to be safe disposal for the radioactive waste. There is no solution to that prob...

"It makes me nervous to think about those who are proposing to drain America's off shore oil and gas reserves as quickly as possible in the hopes of driving down the price of gasoline. Because I think when you look at the good sources of information, Were we to open up the California coast or the Alaska National Wil...

"But most importantly, we must tell the Chinese that it will be far more expensive for them if they commit aggression against Taiwan."

"History has shown us that acts of aggression, if left unresponded to, provoke further acts of aggression."

"I'm really not out to set any records or prove anything to anybody. I just feel blessed to have this experience."

"It will fall to the next president to nominate hundreds of men and women to the federal courts. These choices will have far-reaching consequences for all Americans, and perhaps especially for law enforcement."

"Even worse, when such opinions issue from the highest court, they set a precedent for many more injustices, and they add one more obstacle to the work of law enforcement."

"We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history."

"Iraq has abused its final chance."

"The decision to use force is never cost-free."

"The inequality is fixable."

"Nobody gets out for free."

"No, no we're freezing the time just for a minute. I want to talk to you for a minute please."

"What's the worst that can happen? That you fail. I mean, you know, that is -- that's really not that bad."