It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

Democrats with a good understanding of the need for strong energy policy in our country, especially in these difficult economic times, recognized the importance of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Our single greatest challenge is the ability to move power to markets outside North Dakota.

Education is critical not only to each one of us individually, but also to build the economic vitality of our state.

The fact is, America needs energy and new energy infrastructure, and the Keystone XL pipeline will help us achieve that with good stewardship.

We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.

President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.

Acceptance.Good and bad, Fortune and misfortune, Pleasure and pain, I want it all, Because it's mine.

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

I was kind of surprised that, about 99 percent of the people grabbed the thing [in Valerian].You know it's their thing. And I'm very impressed by that.

It is not mere technical skill that makes a man a golfer, it is the golfing soul.

Work hard to make things easier.