If youre going to play the game properly, youd better know every rule.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

If you're going to play the game [politics] properly, you'd better know every rule.

We must have an economy that does not force the migrant worker's child to miss school in order to earn...just so the family can eat. That is the moral bankruptcy that trickle-down economics is all about.

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.

It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.