Punishing enemies and rewarding friends - politics Chicago style - seems to be the unifying principle that helps explain the Obamacare waivers, the N….

The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about wh….

Religion has been a powerful weapon in the hands of governments, in the hands of priests, in the hands of kings who have used it as a weapon to keep ….

The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the o….

There seemed a gulf impassable between them..

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed ….

There is nothing inherently wrong about science..

There is always someone worse off than yourself..

The point is to live everything..

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me..

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the gov….

Hard work and education will take you farther than any government program can ever promise..

See shades of grey... Act anyway.

The government wants to control the banks, just as it now controls GM and Chrysler, and will surely control the health industry in the not-too-distan….

Every government program needs to be more efficient. Instead of pointing out how other programs can tighten their belts, every program administrator ….

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and est….

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt….

I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader canvas to see how a lot of ….

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders..

The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any governmen….

Almost everything wrong with our health care system comes from government interference with the free market. If the health care system is broken, th….