We just can't trust the American people to make those types of choices.... Government has to make those choices for people.

It takes a village to raise a child.

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.

Don't confuse having a career with having a life.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Every child needs a champion.

I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

I can't speak to the differences within the Catholic Church.

As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens