"So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way."

"Beauty in art is the harmony of spirit, intellect, and craft. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change."

"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."

"It is a quiet truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."