By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

I consider failures to be the compost that feeds the better and best that is on its way.

Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide it entirely.

You've got to keep things simple. Just identify what you need to do to launch, figure out what resources you need, and surround yourself with people who are much smarter than you!

There is no end to learning, but there are many beginnings.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

Unless things change radically, President Bush will be the first President since Herbert Hoover to have presided over a net loss of jobs during his administration.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.

Purge, emerge and flourish. It's natural.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

When your heart truly adores somebody, your mind perceives a halo on that man's head.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Without anxiety and illness I would have been like a ship without a rudder.

Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.

Living too long exacts a painful price.

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

Form no covetous desire, so that the demon of greediness may not deceive thee, and the treasure of the world may not be tasteless to thee.