I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete.

We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years.

Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.