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

The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped.

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

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

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

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.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.