Decide exactly what you want to achieve. Do you want to help people, or do you want to be powerful?

I somehow got this reputation of diddling and dithering. I don't remember dithering at all.

We believe in a government that is characterized by fairness and reasonableness, a reasonableness that goes beyond labels, that doesn't distort or promise to do things that we know we can't do.

The problems of a retired schoolteacher in Duluth are OUR problems. That the future of the child in Buffalo is OUR future. That the struggle of a disabled man in Boston to survive and live decently is OUR struggle. That The hunger of a woman in Little Rock is OUR hunger. That the failure anywhere to provide what reasonably we might to avoid pain is OUR failure.

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.

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

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.