I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

I am building a fire and everyday I train I add more fuel. At just the right moment I light the match.

Business labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

And the truth is those who are terrorists only have to succeed once and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.

In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.