For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a life of aimless diversion.

America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive.

Creativity requires the freedom to consider unthinkable alternatives, to doubt the worth of cherished practices.

If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

We need more than individual value systems; we need a shared vision. A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive society despite the tensions of daily life. That is what enables them to rise above the conflicts that plague any society.