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

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.

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.

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

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never.