When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.

She trailed behind Baba and Jiji as they left the palace, nightingales singing a sad farewell.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

We look, but we don't really see; we hear, but we don't really listen.

[John Adams] is impressed with [Tomas] Jefferson's learning, but noted his silence during the debates in the Congress: "I never heard him utter three Sentences together."

I'm very happy and being raised Catholic I assume it will end tomorrow. The rug will be pulled out from under me and someone will say, now go to your real job, shoveling poop somewhere.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

So the America I came to know growing up was filled with all the excitement and possibilities found in living the American dream.

I've never really been one to get what they call stage fright so much.

I don't think I've ever drunk champagne before breakfast before. With breakfast on several occasions, but never before before.

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.