I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week..

We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it not s….

There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the fortunate, then we'll just have to learn to liv….

We believe in a government strong enough to use words like "love" and "compassion" and smart enough to convert our noblest aspirations into practical….

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever c….

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a ma….

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from pa….

There are only two rules for being successful. One, figure out exactly what you want to do, and two, do it..

It's an old story; it's as old as our history. The difference between Democrats and Republicans has always been measured in courage and confidence. T….

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right..

The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a dis….

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us..

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion y….

I have no plans, and no plans to plan..

The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left be….

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: 'He tried'.

We believe in encouraging the talented, but we believe that while survival of the fittest may be a good working description of the process of evoluti….

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or pr….

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it..

In this life, you should read everything you can read. Taste everything you can taste. Meet everyone you can meet. Travel everywhere you can travel. ….

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling ….