You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.

The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on.

Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.

Find a new and better leader within yourself, for yourself.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

They take pride in their schools. They begin to participate, where, when they are renters, they don't do that. So what we're doing by this program is strengthening America.

The Gospel net never breaks; whosoever will may come

Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. "They are tall," said he, "and comely, but bear no fruit."

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control).