To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, and moral being.

It's still very difficult for me to rely. Your weakness, the blessing of your weakness is it forces you into friendships. The things that you lack, you look for in others.

Faith in God, reverence of a Creator!

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Build on the rock before you hit rock bottom!

The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.