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.

I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

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 really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

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

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.