I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.

The real secret about diplomats is that we're trained to say something, when there is nothing to say, and to say nothing when there is something to say.

Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused back in his day: that we are a great country because we are a good country.

To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.

The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.

My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is to be used to benefit others. I intend to continue that tradition.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

When America closes its doors, so does everybody else.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

If we can't find cuts in the defense budget, we're not looking carefully enough.

The ball was literally glued to the back of his foot - into the back of the net.

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed.

Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.

irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past.

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.

Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.

Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.

Do no depend on others' ideas or concepts because inside yourself is the Wisdom. For the Few.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.