We're just not ready for the retirement of the Baby Boomers. And we'd better prepare for that.

Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.

We don’t want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people to lives of dependency and complacency...

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity.

A free economy and strong communities honor the dignity of every person, rewarding effort with justice, promoting upward mobility, and building solidarity among citizens.

Mr. Vice President, I know you're under a lot of duress to make up for lost ground, but I think people would be better served if we don't keep interrupting each other.

If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas Aquinas. Don't give me Ayn Rand.

And to this day, my Mom is my role model.

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.

We need to stop spending money we don't have.

Do not allow any thing to disturb you.

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

If you don't speak then you are not heard, and if you are not heard then you don't really exist

To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence, they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull world, that’s because you’re not poet enough to wake its soul up.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.