To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

My dear my better half.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

I had this terrible stammer, so I couldn't really speak properly until I was 16 or 17.

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true! I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors!

The biggest threat facing America is terrorists with weapons of mass destruction.

Until I am essentially united with God, I can never have full rest or real happiness.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.