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As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.

I say that to my colleagues, by the way, in the internal Cabinet meetings, I say, 'Look, I want to be very clear about what I want.' I just - I don't want a peace process, I want a peace result.

Every time an Arab leader truly wanted peace, they got it. If the Palestinians truly want peace, we will make peace.

I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

The evidence is there and it is clear. We want the people to be held accountable. Everybody who played a role in the death of Martin Anderson, we want them to be held accountable.

When I was younger, I'd be like 'Would you like to go to dinner' and the girl would be like 'Meh.' But then I was like 'Do you want to go with me for a drink somewhere?' and she'd be like 'Okay.

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

I don't want to be like the actor who rehearses everything in the bathroom, then comes to the set and carries on completely uninterrupted while the other actors tiptoe away.

You want to know what I want? I'll tell you what I want. I want back what Bobby Fischer took with him when he disappeared.

I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

I only wanted to help my people.

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and at my age I can say no to anything now if I don't want to do it. What a liberating word.

Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.

You want me to believe American evidence and don't want me to believe the indications that we have. We live here, this is our reality.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'