I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

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.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

Democracy is not a mathematical deduction proved once and for all time. Democracy is a just faith fervently held, commitment to be tested again and again in the fiery furnace of history.

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.