If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula.

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

He rejects the New World Order established at the Cold War's end by the United States. Putin puts Russia first.

If I missed my moment, I missed my moment. I mean, I wasn't pining to be president of the United States.

During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.