I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

A judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless pit.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation - unfairly.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.