The essence of a university is free and open inquiry, and when it loses that it is no longer a university.

The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Hubris, arrogance, is just one step ahead of loss of integrity, because if you think you're better than other people, you know more, then you're going to think, as many leaders have, that the rules don't apply to them - so they lose their integrity.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

I learned that unless you start working, if you're frozen out of work, you will never learn the habits, the discipline, the values of cooperation and improvement unless you get a job, and that's what statistic show. It's, unless you get a job and keep it, you will not get out of poverty. If you do, you have a very good chance of working out of poverty.

Just spreading the money around - that isn't what makes people better off; it's having more and better goods and services.