I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
(Washington DC, 12 May, 2008)

The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

I am a war president.

Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

How could the president be so wrong, so misinformed?

[To Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso]:'Do you have blacks, too?'