We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Right and wrong becomes more difficult for each of us as we grow older, because the older we get the more we know personally about our own human frailties.

Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

It's not my job to dream your dreams. It's my job to make your dreams become a reality.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

If we invest in the American people, the American people always bring this Nation a good return.

The weight of knowledge is too great for one mind to absorb.

You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self.

It was only a sunny smile And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light it scattered the night And made the day worth living.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.

I'm a promoter of masturbation. Don't sleep around...learn yourself first! Guys do it, but girls don't. They should.

Intellectual effort gives me enormous pleasure