I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Ask not what your community can do for you; ask what your community can not do for anyone else.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government.

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.