Quotes

What the world needed, and it didn't have, was a phone that had the capabilities of a computer. Apple designed an entirely new product—a phone, a Web browser, and a music player. It was a phone design that the world had never seen. Physical keyboards would become a thing of the past. It required an entirely new hardware system. It required an entirely new user interface. That interface had to become completely intuitive.

[Y]ou can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Lawmakers ought to consider why it takes a crisis to reach - even briefly - a greater degree of political harmony.

The things that divide us are not new, yet there's a sense now that the glue that held us together for more than two centuries has thinned and cracked with age. That it was allowed to thin and crack, that the modern era wore it out.

Nobody climbs a ladder alone, and we are never going to bring this country back by telling people they're on their own. We have got to be America and the world together.

There is very little shared experience in the nation now; there are only competing versions of the experience.

I have no doubt if I put out the Pentagon Papers in every detail, same as before, I would now be called a terrorist.

We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.

I am troubled by the demonization of immigrants, legal or illegal, in our party. We’ve got a country that was built on immigrants and immigration, and we’ve kind of lost sight of that.

Technology is a bit like clothing. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, a single item of clothing (a well-tailored pelt or loincloth) would probably suffice. Clothing did one thing, provide cover. Tech has become no different. Tens of years ago, a PC was our primary, if not sole, piece of “technology.” But now we have smartphones, and tablets, and e-book readers, and Internet TV boxes and gaming consoles.

I am determined to defeat our enemies. But victory and security will not come easily. And they won’t come at all if we adhere to a rigid ideology, adopt a narrow methodology, or abandon our most effective terror-fighting weapon our Article Three court system.

There isn’t anyone who can’t serve … nobody who can’t help somebody else.