Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

We want peace with all our hearts. But peace cannot be achieved through weakness.

I don't use labels a lot.

We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

The power of one man or one woman doing the right thing for the right reason, and at the right time, is the greatest influence in our society.