To be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help.

We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes.

The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted.

My objective as Secretary of Labor is to look through the 'glass ceiling' to see who is on the other side, and to serve as a catalyst for change . . . .

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

I am a firm believer in free but fair trade. However the United States should not be on the losing end of trade agreements that are not enforced. It is time that we make China play fairly.

We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true north.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

In seeking success you must also seek fulfillment. Ask yourself not only what you want to be but who you want to be.

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

People know the value of money so they chase it. I wonder if they know the worth of love.

It's not what you see that is art art is the gap.

Maybe we are both good people who've done some bad things.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs.

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.