There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

The French got enough from the Germans to save them from starvation; but many a woman sold herself for a loaf or a chunk of sausage.

Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

I’d have thought 50,000 years of existing on the continent would have qualified as settled.

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

I think the next century will be the century of complexity.