I'm blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where we lived. I saw it all growing up.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world

Ask any woman and she'll tell you: health care for women is more expensive than it is for men. In fact, during their reproductive years, women spend 68% more on health care than men do.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce.

Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home, at school and in the community.

One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them.

Part of protecting our homeland means being less dependent on foreign countries for our energy.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

I don't believe there's any cloud that hangs over me. I think there's nothing but sunshine hanging over me.

Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Messi not scoring? Great players aren't only great because of goals. If they don't score, they offer goals to teammates

Man, I think the sky is the limit for this team.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

A fight is 10% physical and 90% mental.

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.