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

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

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

The Supreme Court has always been the last bastion of the protection of our freedoms.

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

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.