I don't understand how poor people think.

The future success of our Nation depends on our children's ability to understand the difference between right and wrong and to have the strength of character to make the right choices. To help them reach their full potential and live with integrity and pride, we must teach our children to be kind, responsible, honest, and self-disciplined. These important values are first learned in the family, but all of our citizens have an obligation to support parents in the character education of our children

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

[People] don't judge you on what would have happened in the absence of a decision.

In the end, leaders are defined by the convictions they hold.

One of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.