All of us aspire to give our children something more, leave a country to our children that is a better one, a stronger one, with better jobs and growth and opportunity.

This galloping concentration in broadcast ownership is unhealthy.

Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.

The Bush Administration and the Congress have to stop ignoring this crisis in international trade. The longer we ignore it, the more American jobs will move overseas. It's just that simple.

I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

When farmers and ranchers are confronted by weather-related disasters that are beyond their control, we need to do something to help.

When businesses face tough times, one of the first items they cut is overhead expenses. The government should do the same.

The taxpayers deserve accountability.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.

No president can easily commit our sons and daughters to war.

In the Vatican, if you don't get something new done quickly you may not get it done at all.

Why do so manysettle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It means they rely mostly on my eyes.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.