The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.