The path of America's development is never a straight line. Sometimes we move in ways that are forwards; sometime that seem back.

What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.

We reward people a lot for being rich, for being famous, for being cute, for being thin... one of the values I think we need to instill in our country, in our children, is a sense of 'usefulness', in other words, are we useful, are we making other peoples' lives a little bit better?

Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.

Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

The size of your paycheck shouldn’t determine your child’s future.

The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found.