Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Certainty is missing the point entirely.

When the mind is silent, you can listen to your heart and remember that everything is Love and that you are that Love.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.

Are we a nation of guarantees or are we a nation of opportunities to achieve the American dream?

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

Everyone's got unfinished business with Barcelona. They're the greatest team in the world.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.

For it is the grace of Christ, and not our own virtue, that gives us the power to overcome the flesh and the world.