America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow.

I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.

The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.