The promise of our country is that the rules are fair. If you work hard and play by the rules, you can earn your share of America's blessings. Those are the beliefs I learned from my parents.

When a guy gets elected to the Senate or the governor's mansion, he wakes up the next morning and says to himself, 'You're presidential material,'

We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.

I should have had a circuitous answer; that was a non-answer.

I'd call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I'm afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

I didn't serve on a committee that dealt with foreign policy.

But I made one mistake which I would never repeat as a member of Congress when I was in Washington, and that was when I was elected I didn't go on trips because I was so afraid of having someone accuse me of taking junkets.