I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

If you never quit, youll never fail.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.