For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

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

Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.