The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

Eventually I foresee voting on the Internet, which will lead to much more direct democracy.

I'm running for president because I've had enough of the oil barons, the status-quo apologists, the special-interest lobbyists running amok.

I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I share the administration's goals in dealing with Iraq and its weapons of mass destruction.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

Every proposal I'm making, every idea I'm advancing has a single, central purpose: to revive a failing economy and give working Americans the help and security they need.

I had the honor to meet Nelson Mandela, and I heard him explain his forgiveness of his captors of 27 years by saying hatred and bitterness is destructive - the power is in love and forgiveness.

If you think you can then you can.

stronger than mountains.a place where my heart feels the safest- underneath his shirt.

Although when there were too many people around- which there certainly were today- it was hard even to remember to say thank you: all those people were like drowning.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Pacifism is simply undisguised cowardice.

For want of me the world's course will not fail;When all its work is done the lie shall rot;The truth is great and shall prevailWhen none cares whether it prevail or not.

The pawn is the soul of chess.

Hee that doth what hee will, doth not what he ought.

you'd like the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. That must be the most futile oath anyone ever swears.

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.