Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

We need to get beyond the politics of the moment, the deficit of the hour, the military count of the day, the numbers that rarely shape events. Our long-term interests must be in people and in the values of democracy and individual liberty.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

The UN is committed to the goal of ensuring that all nations share in economic, social, & scientific progress. It delivers humanitarian assistance to the victims of wars and natural disasters.

Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.