If you're not listening, you're not learning.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Of those to whom much is given, much is asked.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

True poverty does not come from God.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.