If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

Your influence on others is your net worth, treat it as such.

There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.

I can't be a pessimist because I'm alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.

The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.

Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.

Once you experience forgiveness, your outer world changes.

Churches become poor if they become rich and care not for the poor.

Cool URIs don't change