Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.

There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.

Ideas won't keep: something must be done about them.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there can be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being let me do it now.

People who want to manipulate you will fear your joy, because it's not easily controlled.

I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

The prophets of doom, in my experience, are generally ignored and usually right.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to leave you stuck in a state of defeat

In my case, I think people are surprised that I'm doing exactly what I said I was going to do when I ran, because that's not the typical politician.