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We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Now, I simply do what I want.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.

There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

As much as I want to go out and tour every single day and I'm ready to rip it right now, there's five people in the band, there's five people who've evolved and grown and there's five people who have to get on the same page and want the same things, and it takes a lot to tour.

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now seem comically wrong to a modern book-reading, movie-going, television-watching, legend-loving American public conditioned to think of him as one of the presidential giants on the order of Washington and Lincoln.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I have this whole new audience now.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

The real fans of football come from the working class. Now they cannot afford to come and watch the game.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

I'm often criticised for what I wear. That's my main label in the press now: disastrous dresser!

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.