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.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

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

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

A spirit of harmony can only survive if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.

My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminuation, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution. It is reason and not passion which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.

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