America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education.

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.

Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

The notion that you have a blind trust but you can tell your trustee when to sell stock in it just doesn't make any sense. It means you have a seeing eye trust and not a blind trust. It's ridiculous.

The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

We live not for the years but for the moments.

He seemed like he was baiting me to ask, like he wanted me to know his troubles but wanted me to ask first.

Israel has always been pro-American. Israel will always be pro-American.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.

Singularity is the point at which "all the change in the last million years will be superseded by the change in the next five minutes."

I think one thing we share [with my wife] is a complete bottomless disdain for Bill Clinton.

Sometimes we pay too much attention in Washington to public relations, as opposed to the substance.