I don't need a $100 million mistake. Try to make a $5 million mistake if you have to make one.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

A country's competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.