The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

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

For me to make lasagna would be a desecration of a great Italian dish. . . . I don't mess with sacred things.

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

You will not be able to tell that they are capable of greatness until you provide them with a packed house, a 3-and-2 count and the game is on the line.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.