That first responsibility as a school board member - meals for latch-key children - was absolutely critical in my understanding of the extraordinary problems of poverty.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year.

By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.

Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.

If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.

I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.

As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity.

In the end, if we don't have God we don't have anything other than an end.

True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do.

He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.

Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.

Now, tomorrow, and always.

Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

I'm a great believer that saying yes is a lot more fun than saying no.