Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

There is no such thing as an unimportant person in an organization.

We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in, and otherwise we have returned home to seek our own lives in peace.