Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

Where are the coconut trees bowing allegiance to the wind, the wide open spaces, the verdant green fields?

Unshared joy is an unlighted candle.

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

Spring never is spring unless it comes too soon.

Because I would rather be with my grandfather on Alp than anywhere on earth.

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

Window washers increase the vision in the windows of the buildings; wisdom quotes do the same thing in the eyes of the people!

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?