American society as a whole can never achieve the outer-reaches of potential, so long as it tolerates the inner cities of despair.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

The lecturer points to Dietrich Bonhoeffer's decision to get engaged while in prison as his "positive statement that life will go on, " his affirmation of the power of love.

Great leaders don't rush to blame. They instinctively look for solutions.

... nets, grids, and other types of calculus.

rudeness to Mrs. Dosely was like dropping a pat of butter on to a hot plate - it slid and melted away.

Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

Conscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.

The moment that you impose your will on another person or animal, that's when we are allowed to say you have committed an ethical breach.

I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.