Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

I have supported nominees for cabinet-level positions in the Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations with people who I have tremendous disagreements with on substantive matters, and I've always supported them.

Our nation's children are our greatest asset and our most precious treasure.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia [Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a former Ku Klux Klan recruiter] that he would have been a great senator at any moment. . . . He would have been right during the great conflict of civil war in this nation.

Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me when my job is at stake.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.