In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Winners aren't perfect. They made fewer mistakes than their rivals.

The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.

Don't get mad except on purpose.

You can't save the world if you can't pay the rent.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Political technology determines political success.

Actions have consequences.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I’d ever say.

I have this internal battle between, I need to work, I need to work, I need to work and I need to be home with my kids. And the kids win.

The political and substantive reality is that the agenda has to change. I don't think they have any choice.

Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I'm Bill Clinton and I think you deserve a change. That's why I've offered a plan to get the economy moving again, starting with a middle-class tax cut.