To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has ever sued its way to greatness.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

Don’t always complain the way isn’t there. If you can’t find the way, create it.

Lead with your heart. The rest will follow.

A leader's job is not to put greatness into people, but rather to recognize that it already exists, and to create an environment where that greatness can emerge and grow.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run the truth that finally overtakes you.

The unfolding of our friendship with the Father will be a never-ending revelation strretching on into eternity

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.