The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal budget deficit reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

What's wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence... I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.