Tax (reform) is ultimately a decision about values.

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

I think the political process has degenerated into name-calling and extremism, and I think that that's unfortunate.

Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.

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.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

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.