Helping people helps defines a strategy that makes public and private moneys more effective when it comes to helping save lives.

In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

Adoption was such a positive alternative to abortion, a way to save one life and brighten two more: those of the adoptive parents.

I understand everybody in this country doesn't agree with the decisions I've made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.

Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes.

Our aim is a democratic peace.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'