The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Freedom isn't hard to lose - but it's a hard thing to win back once it's been lost.

Forgiveness leads to healing of wounds and restoration of health.

In chaos, there is fertility.

His [Martin Luther King] last book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community, is a direct reference to angles, barbarism or socialism.

I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.

The base of evil in the world is religion of any kind

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

Jealousy ought to be tragic, to save it from being ridiculous.

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.