My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Change is never easy, but always possible.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

They're saying I'm a crazy because I'm executing a work beyond their imagination.

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.

Always be courageous and strong, & don't fear. You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.

People love WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption in their opponents. People oppose WikiLeaks when it is exposing corruption or dangerous behavior in themselves.

Either consciously or unconsciously we are searching for the highest Self, which is at once eternal and infinite.

The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.