So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent.

You are not going to revive the unemployment of 26 million Americans with tax cuts.

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

No lie can live forever.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.

Politicians argue for abortion largely because they do not want to spend the necessary money to feed, clothe and educate more people... There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of higher order than the right to life. I do not share that view... That was the premise of slavery. You could not protest the existence or treatment of slaves on the plantation because that was private and therefore outside of your right to concerned.