I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.

A nation can't get strong on political pablum.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements.

Peace is neither the absence of war nor the presence of a disarmament agreement. Peace is a change of heart.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.