Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

At the end of the day, we all know what the Jordan logo means, and you can't take anything away from that. But it's pretty cool to have my own logo on a Jordan shoe.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

We often see a temper of the times connection, and it's just like a fairy tale. It's not true.

People who recognize that money won't buy happiness are still willing to see if credit cards will do the trick.

If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.

The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.

We've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.