The goal with a big piece of social legislation is to have a bipartisan result, so the country will accept it

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.

If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money

Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

If we trust parents to choose child care for their children, and we trust them to help their children choose a college to attend – and both those systems have been so successful – why do we not also trust them to choose the best elementary or high school for their children?

I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now.