Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

The less oil the world uses, the less important the region that has so much of it becomes.

Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.