Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

Perseverance is a virtue that cannot be understated.

According to our Christian ethics, we're supposed to love God, love each other and help take care of the poor. It is immoral to charge somebody making $5,000 an income tax.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.

Graceful aging starts by leveling the playing field between emotional landmines and physical grievances.

How can she expect her children to dream as big as the stars if they can't lift their heads to gaze upon them?

There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Nobody has the time, the time cannot be owned. The time is free to everyone

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.