Hope is the motivation that empowers the unemployed, enabling them to get out of bed every single morning with unbounded enthusiasm as they look for work.

The truth of the matter is the tone is toxic here in Washington, and we have been exporting it around the country.

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

There is more power in unity than division.

We've gotten to the point now where Republicans and Democrats have nothing in common besides being members of the 'caustic caucus,' and we can't get anything done.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

[Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I've ever met.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

This deal is a sugar-coated satan sandwich. If you lift the bun, you will not like what you see.

Do something completely unrelated to your goals, and feel good about it. We all need rest, recreation, and a reminder that there is more to life than pursuing our goals.

Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords

As the body cannot be sustained without corporeal food, nor continue in natural life, so without this life-giving food the soul cannot persist in the spiritual life of grace.

Our Christian life began not with our decision to follow Christ but with God's call to us to do so.

Princes should delegate to others the enactment of unpopular measures and keep in their own hands the means of winning favours.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

When asked whether he minded if someone smoked in a non-smoking compartment. Certainly not if you don't object if I'm sick.