When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges. Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker. We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt.

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

The American dream does not happen by asking Americans to accept what's immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

If you are explaining, you are losing.